Sham

Definition: Sham

Sham

Adjective

1. Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty".

Noun

1. Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be.

2. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

Verb

1. Make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep".

2. Make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sham" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sham

Contention

Compe rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana; boat race, torpids.

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Mockery; (imitation); copy; counterfeit, sham, make-believe, forgery, fraud; lie; "a delusion a mockery and a snare", hollow mockery.

Falsehood

Sham; pretense, pretending, malingering.

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; deceive.

Untruth

Pretense, pretext; false plea; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham; (deception).

Crosswords: Sham

Swahili (Syria).

Elaine, up until a few minutes ago, I was convinced I was on the receiving end of the oldest baker's grift in the books - The Enterman's Shim Sham. Until I remembered my security camera, which I installed to catch other Walter using my latrine (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Whacking Day is a sham! It was originally conceived in 1922 as an excuse to beat up on the Irish (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

The moon is bright over Lebanon tonight, the Lebanese moon looks down, shim sham shacam, cattle explode, cow shrapnel drips off tree into mother's tear for little boy who goes on into battle and comes back dead, or worse, a man . (The Kids in the Hall; writing credit: Dave Foley; Bruce McCulloch)

Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends (25th Hour; writing credit: David Benioff)

This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose)

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Ulai Terdu Sham (1964)

Sham Savera (1946)

The Sham Reality (1916)

Sham Battle at the Pan-American Exposition (1901)

Naval Sham Battle at Newport (1900)

Little Red Riding Hood (performing artist: Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs)

Wooly Bully (performing artist: Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Arenas of Greed: The Great Chicago Commodity Market Sham (reference)

• Elian: Shame or Sham (reference)

• On sham, vulnerability and other forms of self-destruction (reference)

• Sham Flyers (reference)

• Sham Pearls for Real Swine (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Leonard Reed's Shim Sham Shimmy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pharaohization! The Best Of Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Pacific Coast Feather Chestnut Paisley Standard Sham (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

We must make sure that its work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in a Tower of Babel. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You cannot request to receive the new treatment instead of the placebo or sham treatment. (references)

Thus, there is substantial controversy over the use of sham acupuncture in control groups. (references)

This assessment of efficacy focuses on high-quality trials comparing acupuncture with sham acupuncture or placebo. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

In January the High Court intervened when newspapers reported a case in which a man refused to remarry his wife after she was forced to undergo a sham marriage at the insistence of a local village religious leader under a fatwa (less educated religious leaders sometimes believe that when a man ritualistically divorces his wife in anger, per Islamic rules, that he cannot take her back or remarry her unless she has a intervening marriage; however, ritualistic divorces that occur in anger are not valid under Islamic or civil law). (references)

Political Rights

Iraq

The 1995 so-called referendum on Saddam Hussein's presidency was not free and was dismissed as a sham by most international observers. (references)

Travel

Egypt

Sham El Nessim changes with Coptic calendar. (references)

Worker Rights

Taiwan

Criminal gangs in mainland China reportedly use deceptive measures to recruit and procure young women who were then trafficked to Taiwan-based organized crime gangs who arranged sham marriages to enable them to obtain visas to enter Taiwan, and exploited them for purposes of prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sham": pillow sham ♦ sham battle ♦ sham fight ♦ sham ill ♦ sham marriage ♦ sham resistance ♦ sham sleep ♦ sham transaction ♦ To sham Abraham ♦ To sham Abram. Additional references.

Beginning with "sham": sham-chewing, sham-historical, sham-manipulations, sham-victorian.

Ending with "sham": pillow-sham, sheet-sham.

Albanian

shtirje (affectation, artificiality, camp, dissimulation, humbug, pretence, pretense, pretension), shtinjak (painted, phoney, shammer), sharlatan (charlatan, mountebank, phoney, quack), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, swindle, take in, trick), imitacion (dummy, mimesis, mimicry, pinchbeck), gjë e rreme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏مكر (archness, artfulness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, double dealing, feint, fish, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, slyness, trick, wiliness), ‏متكلف (affected, artificial, assumed, constrained, factitious, faked, false, feigned, forced, mannered, overacted, put on, stagy, stilted, stogie, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏متصنع (affected, artificial, assumed, mannered, overacted, phony, simulated, stagy, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏مزيف (bogus, counterfeiter, fabricated, faked, forged, imitator, phoney, specious, spurious, theatrical, unoriginal), ‏قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, parrot, present, send up, simulate, vest), ‏تمثيل كوميدي, ‏تمثيل (creation, mayhem, performance, personification, picture, play, representation, sculpture, torture), ‏تظاهر (affect, assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, show, simulate, simulation), ‏زيف (adulterate, alloy, artificiality, counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, falsify, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏صوري (phoney, simulate), ‏الدجال (charlatan, impostor, magus, mountebank, operator, quack, witchdoctor), ‏دجال (empiric, fake, humbug, juggler). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мошеник (blackguard, cheat, crook, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, shark, sharp, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), имитация (counterfeit, ersatz, fake, imitation, mock, pinchbeck, repetition, replication, simulation), подправен (adulterate, adulterine, corrupt, counterfeit, feigned, forged, fraudulent, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, queer, seasoned, spiced, spicy, supposititious), позьор (affected person, dude, fraud, poser, poseur, pretender, prig), престорен (affected, bogus, factitious, feigned, mimic, phoney, pretended, put on, simulated, synthetic), преструвам се (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, personate, pretend, profess, put it on, put on an act, simulate), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), преструвка (affectation, dissimulation, feint, pose, pretence, pretense, pretension, simulacrum), симулация (dissimulation, simulation), шарлатан, шарлатания (hankey-pankey, hanky panky), фалшификация (counterfeit, ersatz, fabrication, fake, falsification, forgery), фалшифициран (adulterate, adulterine, pinchbeck, spurious), симулирам (dissimulate, feign, malinger, simulate), симулант (dissimulator, malingerer, shammer, simulator), преструване (affectation, disguise, dissemblance, make believe, pretence, pretension, show, simulation). (various references)

Chinese 

假货. (various references)

Czech

přetvářka (dissimulation, hypocrisy), předstírat (affect, dissimulate, fake, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, simulate), oklamat (befool, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, hoodwink), napodobený, napodobení (imitation, mock, simulacrum, simulation), klam (bluff, cheating, deceit, deception, fallaciousness, fallacy), falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, spurious, two faced, wrong). (various references)

Danish

svig (evasion, sham transaction, tax evasion), skinaftale (sham contract), pro forma aftale (sham contract), aftale indgaaet paa skroemt (sham contract). (various references)

Dutch

schijnverkoop (fictitious sale, sham sale), schijnkoop (fictitious sale, sham sale), schijnhandeling (fictitious transaction, sham transaction), schijncontract (sham contract), voorgewende rechtshandeling (sham contract, sham deed, sham transaction), frauduleuze handelingen (fraudulent practices, sham transaction), fictieve handeling (fictitious transaction, sham transaction), bedrieglijke handelingen (cheating, fraudulent representation, misrepresentation, sham transaction, swindling). (various references)

Farsi 

قلابی (Adulterate, Bogus, False, Pasteboard, Quack), وانمودکردن (Affect, Assume, Dissemble, Fake, Look, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Simulate), تظاهرکردن (Assume), ساختگی (Apocryphal, Bogus, False, Imitation, Made, Phony, Quack, Whopper), ریاکاری (Hyporisy), دروغی (Quack), بخودبستن (Arrogate, Assume, Pretend, Simulate). (various references)

Finnish

tekeytyä joksikin (affect, feign, pretend to be). (various references)

French

simuler, simulé, simili, jouer la comédie, imposteur, imitation, feint, feindre, faux, falsifier, faire semblant, en toc, comédie, chiqué. (various references)

German

Schein.., Schein- (dummy, make believe, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, specious), scheinheilige (hypocrite, sanctimoniously), simulieren (feign, feign illness, malinger, meditate, ruminate, simulate, to simulate), schein (apparent, appearance, bank note, banknote, bank-note, bill, certificate, gleam, glimmer, glint, glow, license, light, note, pretense, shine, ticket), unecht (apocryphal, artificial, bogus, dummy, fake, false, gimmicky, hollow, imitation, improper, phoney, phonily, phony, put on, unlifelike), vorgeben (allege, give as an excuse, Masquerade, pretend, profess, purport, to pretend), vorgetäuscht (fake, feigned, put on, shammed), vortäuschen (counterfeit, fake, feign, pretend, put up, simulate, to affect, to simulate), vorspiegeln (dupe, feign, plead, to dupe), attrappe (dummy), mache (make, structure), imitiert (imitated, imitates), heucheln (be a hypocrite, dissemble, feign, pretend, profess, simulate), heuchelei (cant, hypocrisy, pretense), geheuchelt (canted, feigned), falsch (bogus, cattish, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, fake, false, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, insincere, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, pseudo, put on, spurious, unsounded, untrue, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Greek 

καμώματα (airs and graces, antics, carryings on, histrionics), προσποιούμαι (affect, feign, feint, make believe, make out, pretend, pretend to, simulate), προσποίηση (artificiality, dissimulation, feint, make believe, pretence, simulation), προφασίζομαι (allege, plead, pretend), πλαστόσ (counterfeit, false, falsified, fictitious, forged, mock, shoddy, spurious, supposititious), απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, spoof, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, dupe, fool, gouge, gyp, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, rook, shave, shortchange, spoof, swindle, trick), ψευδήσ (bogus, false, mendacious, mock, phony, pseudo). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזיף (fabricate, fake, falsify, forge, simulate, tamper), להתחזות (impersonate), להעמיד פנים (affect, dissimulate, feign, make believe, pose, pretend, simulate), שקר (false, falsehood, falsity, lie, lying, prevarication, tale, untruth), התחזות (configuration), בלוף (bluff). (various references)

Hungarian

sarlatán (charlatan, empiricist, imposter, medicaster, mountebank, quack, quack doctor, tarlatan), utánzat (artificial, counterfeit, dummy, echo, fake, imitation, parody, pasticci, pasticcio, pastiche), tettetés (affectation, assumption, dissimulation, feint, pretence, simulation), nem valódi (bastard, bogus, false, phoney, unreal), hamis (adulterous, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, factitious, false, frame-up, hollow, insincere, loaded, make-believe, mendacious, meretricious, mock, mockery, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseud, pseudo, simulated, snide, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, two faced, untrue, untruthful), ámítás (bait, bluff, hocus pocus, mystification), ál- (bogus, dummy, dutch, impersonator, mock, phantom, pseudo), ál (bogus, impersonator, phantom, phoney, pseud, simulated, spurious, surreptitious). (various references)

Indonesian

tipuan (deceitful, mock, swindle). (various references)

Italian

simulare (affect, feign, malinger, mimic, pretend, simulate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

贋物 (counterfeit, forgery, imitation), 贋作 (counterfeit, fake), 贋 (bogus, imitation), 真似事 (make-believe, mere form), 疑似 (false, mock, pseudo, quasi, suspected), 紛い物 (imitation), 擬似　 (pref suspected, pseudo), 擬似 (false, mock, pseudo, quasi, suspected), 擬い (imitation), 似非者 (counterfeit, fraud, impostor, pretender), 似非　 (false, mock, pretended, would-be), 似非 (false, mock, pretended, pseudo, quasi, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎじ (character of questionable form, false, mock, proceedings, pseudo, quasi, questionable word, suspected), がんさく (counterfeit, fake), がんぶつ (counterfeit, forgery, imitation), まがいもの (an imitation, fake, imitation), まがい (brothel, den of thieves, imitation, red-light district), まねごと (make-believe, mere form), にせさく (counterfeit, fake), にせもの (counterfeit, forgery, imitation, imposter, liar, spurious article), にせ (bogus, deception, false, falsehood, imitation, lie), えせもの (counterfeit, fraud, impostor, pretender), えせ (false, mock, pretended, pseudo, pseudo-, quasi, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Korean 

가짜 (Fake, spurious). (various references)

Manx

lhiggey er (affectation, affectedness, counterfeit, dissimulate, dissimulation, feign, feigning, feint, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretend, profess, simulate, simulation), foalsey (affected, bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, ersatz, fallacious, false, feigned, forged, hollow, hollow of victory, hypocritical, perfidious, pinchbeck, spurious, substitute, suppositious, tinsel, treacherous, two-faced, wrong, wrong as note). (various references)

Pig Latin

amshay.(various references)

Portuguese

simulado (artful, assumed, counterfeit, double, dummy, feigned, make-believe, mock, pretended, simulate, simulated, spurious), simular (affect, assume, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feint, make believe, palter, play-act, pretend, purport, put on, simulate), impostor (charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, hocus, humbug, imposter, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, quack, quacksalver, shammer, shyster, swindler, trickster), falsidade (double-dealing, eyewash, falsehood, falseness, falsity, flam, insincerity, lie, lying, perfidy, prevarication, tale, untruth), falsificação (bogus, counterfeit, dud, fake, falsification, forgery, mock, phoney, phony, salting, sophistication, substitute), fazer de, fingido (artificial, assumed, cattish, double, faked, false, feigned, forced, insincere, make-believe, pretended, supposititious), fingir (assume, attitudinize, counterfeit, dissemble, double, feign, feint, imitate, make believe, palter, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, simulate), engano (blunder, bunco, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, error, fault, feint, fraud, gag, gammon, hoax, imposition, invention, inveracity, mare's-nest, miscalculation, miss, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, slip, take-in, tripping), imitação (cheat, counterfeit, dud, fake, imitation, mimesis, mimicry, mock, phoney, phony, reproduction, simulacrum, substitute, take-off), impostura (imposture, phoney, phony, trickery), logro (bluff, bob, cantrip, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cross, do, graft, hoax, imposition, leasing, mare's-nest, mystification, overreach, spoof, swindle, take-in), pretextar (feign, give as an excuse, play-act, plead, pretend, pretext), pretexto (allegation, cover, covering, cover-up, excuse, ground, handle, mask, pretext, refuge, veil), procurar fazer crer, fraude (bilk, brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, deception, embezzlement, fraud, graft, guile, humbug, inveracity, ruse, skulduggery, spoof, trickery, wile). (various references)

Romanian

simula (act, affect, assume, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, malinger, play off, pretend, simulate), pretexta (feign, pretend, pretext), preface (alter, change, convert, feign, reduce, simulate, swell, transform), prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, squeamish, treacherous), prefãcãtorie (acting, cant, disguise, dissimulation, double dealing, feint, felinity, hypocrisy, make believe, pretence, simulacrum, simulation), minţi (fib, lie, rook, stretch, thump), fictiv (assumed, bogus, dummy, fictional, fictitious, fictitiously, fictive, unreal), farsor (cheat, humbug, swindler), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), convenţional (artificial, conventional, conventionally, hypocritical, nominal), comedie (comedy, device, drollery, farce, sock, trick), aparent (apparent, apparently, conspicuous, evident, ostensible, seeming, seemingly, specious, visible), amãgealã (deceit, deception, delusion, mystification), afectare (affectation, affecting, archness, demureness, dissimulation, fastidiousness, feint, foppery, foppishness, hypercriticism, mannerism, pose, preciosity, primness), afecta (affect, afflict, alter, appropriate, assume, concern, disorder, feign, grieve, pretend, simulate, touch, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

подделка (adulteration, counterfeit, fabrication, false coin, falsification, hacking, manipulation, phoney, shams). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

varka (delusion, illusion, pretence, pretense, will-o'-the-wisp), vajni (pretended, professed, would be), prividan (bogus, illusory, make believe, ostensible, specious), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), laž (crammer, falsehood, flam, lie, story, tale, taradiddle, untruth). (various references)

Spanish

fingir (act, affect, dissemble, fake, feign, Fox, give as an excuse, make believe, make out, mint, pretend, simulate), fingido (assumed, bogus, dissembled, feigned, make believe, mimic, mock, pretended, professed, simulated, unction). (various references)

Swedish

sken- (quasi-), simulera (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, malinger, pretend, simulate, swing the lead). (various references)

Turkish

sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, faker, fakir, forger, fraud, fraudulent, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, shammer), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), yastık kılıfı (bedtick, pillow slip, pillowcase, slip), yapma (accomplishment, acquittal, artificial, construction, cut it out, drop it, dummy, execution, exercise, fulfillment, fulfilment, go on, imitated, implement, making, perpetration, postiche, pursuance, spurious, stop it), yapar gibi görünmek (let on, make as if to, make pretence of doing, make pretense of doing, play at, play on, play upon, pretend), yalancı (deceitful, fabricator, fabulist, fibber, liar, mendacious, prevaricator, pseudo-, quack, simulator, taleteller, twister, twisty, untruthful), yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), taklidi yapmak, numara yapmak (act, fake, make a show of, perform, pretend), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer). (various references)

Ukrainian

удавання (acting, affectation, affectedness, assumption, comedy, dissimulation, feint, hypocrisy, make believe, pose, pretension, simulation), фіктивний (fictitious, paper), обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), бутафорський, підробка (adulteration, counterfeit, dud, fake, falsehood, forgery, pinchbeck, postiche), підроблений (adulterate, adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, falsified, imitative, mock, simulated, snide, spurious, staged, supposititious), прикидатися (affect, counterfeit, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, simulate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giả vờ (dissimulation, make-believe, simulation), sự giả mạo người giả bộ, sự giả bộ (make-believe), sự giả, người giả vờ (dissembler, shammer, simulator), người giả mạo (shammer), giả vờ; giả mạo, giả bộ (pretended), giả (counterfeit, dummy, make-believe, mock, pinchbeck, spurious). (various references)

Welsh

ffug (affectation, bogus, false, fiction, fictitious), ffuantu (bluff, feign, pretend), cogio (bluff, cog, feign, pretend). (various references)

fuco, simulo, simultas. (various references)

feinte. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sham": shamable, shaman, shamanic, shamanism, shamanisms, shamanist, shamanistic, shamanists, shamans, shamas, shamble, shambled, shambles, shambling, shambolic, shame, shamed, shamefaced, shamefacedly, shamefacedness, shamefacednesses, shamefast, shameful, shamefully, shamefulness, shamefulnesses, shameless, shamelessly, shamelessness, shamelessnesses, shames, shaming, shammas, shammash, shammashim, shammasim, shammed, shammer, shammers, shammes, shammied, shammies, shamming, shammos, shammosim, shammy, shammying, shamois, shamos, shamosim, shamoy. (additional references)

Words containing "sham": ashamed, ashamedly, beshame, beshamed, beshames, beshaming, outshame, outshamed, outshames, outshaming, unashamed, unashamedly, unshamed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sham" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aham, Asham, bham, eham, Esha, Eshaq, eshman, gham, ghim, hsm, Iham, ishim, Kham, rham, sahha, sahn, samf, Samh, Samm, sbam, Schak, scham, Schaum, sehan, sha, shaf, shai, shak, Shakma, Shambhu, shami, Shamim, Shamji, shamma, shamp, shamu, shamy, shana, shang, shani, shanz, shaq, sharm, shasm, shawm, shaz, sheam, shem, shema, shemp, shemu, shen, shima, Shimbu, shimi, shimm, shsa, shum, Siham, sjem, skam, spamm, sphan, stam, suam, Syha, yham, zhim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hams, mash.

-1 letter: ash, ham, has, mas, sha.

-2 letters: ah, am, as, ha, hm, ma, sh.

+1 letter: amahs, chams, chasm, haems, halms, hames, harms, machs, marsh, mashy, maths, shame, shams, shawm, smash, whams.

+2 letters: abmhos, abohms, ahimsa, almahs, almehs, ambush, ashman, ashmen, ashram, asthma, bimahs, champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chiasm, famish, hakims, halmas, hamals, hamzas, hansom, harems, haulms, humans, ihrams, maches, machos, mahoes, marish, marshy, mashed, masher, mashes, mashie, matsah, mishap, mochas, moshav, mynahs, oghams, sachem, samech, samekh, samshu, schema, shalom, shaman, shamas, shamed, shames, shammy, shamos, shamoy, shamus, shawms, shazam, shmear, sumach, tharms.