Sham

Adjective

 * 1) Intended to deceive; false.
 * It was only a sham wedding, they didn't care much for one another but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.

Synonyms

 * mock

Noun

 * 1) A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
 * The time-share deal was a sham.
 * 1) Trickery, hoaxing.
 * A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
 * 1) A decorative cover for a pillow.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:fake

Antonyms

 * genuine
 * sincere
 * real

Derived terms

 * shamateur

Verb

 * 1) To deceive, cheat, lie.
 * You were shammed by the pool shark.

Verbs for Sham
cloak—; denounce—; discard—; disclose— divulge—; expose—; fabricate—; uncover —; penetrate—; rebuke—; resort to—; reveal—; suppress—; unveil—; —deceives; —defrauds; —deludes; —disguises; —distorts ; —feigns; —imposes upon; —mimics; —perverts; —pretends; —simulates.

Thesaurus
Tartuffery, Tartuffism, act, act a part, acting, adulterated, affect, affectation, affected, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ape, apocryphal, apology, appearance, artificial, artificiality, assume, assumed, attitudinizing, bastard, blagueur, blazon, blind, bluff, bluffer, bluffing, bogus, bravura, brilliancy, brummagem, burlesque, cant, caricature, charlatan, cheat, cheating, clinquant, cloak, color, colorable, colored, coloring, copy, counterfeit, counterfeited, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, create, daring, dash, deceit, deception, delusion, demonstration, device, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissemble, dissembling, dissimulate, dissimulation, distorted, do a bit, dramatics, dramatize, dressed up, dummy, eclat, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, etalage, excuse, exhibition, exhibitionism, facade, face, factitious, fake, faked, fakement, faker, fakery, faking, false, false air, false front, false show, falsified, falsity, fanfaronade, farce, feign, feigned, feigned belief, feigning, feint, fictitious, fictive, figure, flair, flam, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, forged, forgery, four-flush, four-flushing, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, fraudulent, front, gammon, garbled, gilt, gloss, guise, handle, histrionics, histrionize, hoax, hokey, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, hypocritical, hypocriticalness, illegitimate, image, imitate, imitation, impersonator, impostor, imposture, insincerity, invent, junk, junky, lame excuse, let on, let on like, lie, locus standi, made-up, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, make out like, make-believe, malingerer, man-made, manifestation, mannerism, mask, masquerade, mere show, meretriciousness, mislead, mock, mountebank, ostensible motive, ostentation, outward show, overact, pageant, pageantry, parade, paste, pecksniffery, perverted, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarized, plaster, play, play a part, play a scene, play possum, playact, playacting, poor excuse, pose, poser, poseur, posing, posture, pretend, pretended, pretender, pretense, pretension, pretext, profess, protestation, prunes and prisms, pseudo, public image, public motive, put on, put on airs, put-off, put-on, put-up job, putting on airs, quack, quacksalver, quackster, quasi, queer, refuge, representation, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, screen, seeming, self-styled, sell, semblance, shammer, shoddy, show, showing-off, simulacrum, simulate, simulated, simulation, smoke screen, snide, so-called, soi-disant, speciousness, spectacle, splash, splurge, spoof, spurious, staginess, stalking-horse, stratagem, stylishness, substitute, subterfuge, supposititious, swindle, synthetic, theatrics, tin, tinsel, titivated, travesty, trick, tug the heartstrings, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unnaturalness, unreal, varnish, vaunt, veil, warped, wear, whited sepulcher, window dressing

Etymology
Probably a dialectal form of shame:.

Adjective

 * Italian: fasullo
 * Romanian: păcăleală


 * Spanish: falso; fingido

Noun

 * Dutch: nep, imitatie
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: faux-semblant
 * German: Fälschung, Imitat


 * Italian: falso, fasullo
 * Japanese: まがいもの, 真似事
 * Russian: подделка


 * Dutch: bedrog, oplichterij, kwakzalverij
 * Finnish: huijaus, petos, huiputus
 * French: feinte, tromperie, ruse, astuce
 * German:, ,


 * Greek: ψευδής (psevdhís)
 * Japanese: ごまかし
 * Russian: мошенничество, жульничество

Verb

 * French: tromper, tricher, mentir
 * Romanian: păcăli


 * Spanish: fingir

Anagrams

 * AMHS
 * hams
 * HMAS
 * mash, MASH

Noun

 * 1) candle