Sham is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHAM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to feign
• falsely present something as the truth
• pretend to be or to be experiencing
• 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.
• make a pretence of
• make believe with the intent to deceive
• fake, feign
NOUN:
• a thing that is not what it is purported to be
• pretence
• a person who pretends to be someone or something they are not
• thing or person that is not genuine
• 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.
• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
• a person who makes deceitful pretenses
ADJECTIVE:
• bogus; false
• False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.
• adopted in order to deceive
• not genuine

Words related to SHAM

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Words that contain SHAM

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How to use SHAM in a sentence

• Again, however, in this year of ominous rest they renew their sham peace with poor Buhred and his Mercians, who thus manage to tide it over another winter.
• Blake, Burns, and indeed most of the poets of the age were influenced by this sham poetry.
• On overtaking them, they drew up on each side, and some dozen of them kept up a running sham fight with their swords and small wooden and metal shields before the Bey.
• So it was all a sham, a bit of glass, for which we had risked our lives.
• Sham Babu went into the courtyard where Susil sat talking with some other boys about the astounding piece of good fortune which awaited him.
• Sham Babu thanked them warmly and retired to his native village, with the intention of passing the evening of life in peace.
• Sham Babu was astonished by the tone adopted by his visitor.
• When pressed by Sham Babu to repay the loan, he asked for time, pleading that his whole capital was locked up.
• We have had a great deal of sham glory, and sham courage, and sham strength.
• But that scene with the dying child had been no sham.
• The whole service seemed to me a mockery and a sham.
• The desire to get rid of the negro is a hollow sham.
• The fall over the cliff was premeditated, the sprained foot was a sham, the whole affair was clearly planned in order that he might be left alone in my room.
• America also has had her sham dauphin, in the person of an Indian missionary, whose claims have been repeatedly presented to the public both in magazine articles and in book form.
• But in reality the veto, even before its strict constitutional existence, was little more than a sham.
• He owned this house, and, wishing to save it from his creditors, he had previously made a sham sale of it to me.
• It is true that a sham convention passed a sham ordinance, but this had no weight with any except those who were already Secessionists.
• But a man cannot indulge in a sham joke, because it is the ruin of a joke to be unintelligible.
• At no time was so much sham jewellery made and worn.
• She must have her locket too, fastened round her throat with black velvet, but it is all, with the exception of the velvet, a sham.
• Thus is coming about, to the infinite benefit of the community, the overthrow of that noxious sham, the party politician.
• It is all a miserable sham, mamma, a vile miserable sham! Give it up.
• And the outcome? The sham unity of government has been replaced by a real unity of interest, affection and cultural affinity.
• I went down to town for once in a mood to live up to what had been heretofore only a sham character.

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