sham

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Intended to deceive; false.
2. Counterfeit; unreal.

Noun

1. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
2. Trickery, hoaxing.
3. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
4. A decorative cover for a pillow.

Verb

1. To deceive, cheat, lie.
2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

Noun

Clipping of champagne.

Sinónimos

counterfeit

fake

false

feign

pretend

fraud

mock

imitation

pretended

bogus

pretender

simulate

spurious

cheat

pseudo

artificial

deception

deceit

impostor

trick

feigned

make-believe

affect

hoax

forgery

humbug

make believe

simulated

fictitious

imposter

pretense

pretence

quasi

con

dissimulation

shoddy

gyp

simulation

hypocrite

swindle

trickery

trickster

faker

shammer

assume

dissemble

feint

imposture

indirection

assumed

put on

phoney

deceiver

hypocrisy

faked

pseud

bilk

dummy

fakery

cheating

scam

not genuine

role player

postiche

forged

mimicry

misleading

forge

dissembler

fictive

supposititious

suspected

delusive

swindler

stratagem

deceive

imitate

spoof

shortchange

shuck

simulator

slicker

snow job

sophism

sophistry

staged

subversiveness

swindling

tin

toy

transcript

treachery

treason

twin

unreal

unreality

untrue

vanity

welch

would-be

Brummagem

fraud in fact

take-in

spurious article

mere form

pseudo-

humbuggery

traitorousness

geign

make like

prestense

false pretence

false pretense

positive fraud

swiz

jiggery pokery

affectation

allege

artificiality

astuteness

bamboozle

bastard

beguilement

betrayal

bluff

carbon

card sharper

chicane

chicanery

chisel

circumvent

circumvention

confidence man

copy

cozenage

cunning

deceptive

deceptiveness

delusion

dissembling

dissimulator

dodge

dud

dupe

duplicate

dust

erroneous

evasive

fallacious

fallacy

falsehood

falsification

falsify

feigning

fool

frame-up

fraudulence

gammon

gouge

grifter

guile

hoodwink

imaginary

impose

imposition

jockey

juggle

lie

lying

malingering

masquerade

mendacious

meretricious

mockery

nothingness

pasteboard

perfidy

phony

pinchbeck

plead

pretension

pretentious

put-on

quack

quibbling

replication

reproduce

reproduction

rip-off

rook

sellout

setup

shave

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ʃæm/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Probably a dialectal form of shame.