Definition of Sham

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Definition of Sham

Sham

That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.

A false front, or removable ornamental covering.

False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.

To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.

To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.

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Sham Quotations

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
William Morris

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Charles Polanyi

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
Rob Corddry

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Nick Mancuso

Sham Translations

sham in French is simili
sham in German is Schein.., Schein-
sham in Italian is simulare
sham in Spanish is fingido, fingir, remedo
sham in Swedish is sken-, simulera

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