Synonyms for Sham
ʃæmsham

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1. shamadjective

   Synonyms:
   mock

   Antonyms:
   real, genuine, sincere

2. shamadjective

   Intended to deceive; false.

   The time-share deal was a sham.

   Synonyms:
   mock

   Antonyms:
   sincere, genuine, real

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1. sham

   Pretense (Latin prætendo) primarily signifies the holding something forward as having certain rights or claims, whether truly or falsely; in the good sense, it is now rarely used except with a negative; as, there can be no pretense that this is due; a false pretense implies the possibility of a true pretense; but, alone and unlimited, pretense commonly signifies the offering of something for what it is not. Hypocrisy is the false pretense of moral excellence, either as a cover for actual wrong, or for the sake of the credit and advantage attaching to virtue. Cant (Latin cantus, a song), primarily the singsong iteration of the language of any party, school, or sect, denotes the mechanical and pretentious use of religious phraseology, without corresponding feeling or character; sanctimoniousness is the assumption of a saintly manner without a saintly character. As cant is hypocrisy in utterance, so sanctimoniousness is hypocrisy in appearance, as in looks, tones, etc. Pietism, originally a word of good import, is now chiefly used for an unregulated emotionalism; formalism is an exaggerated devotion to forms, rites, and ceremonies, without corresponding earnestness of heart; sham (identical in origin with shame) is a trick or device that puts one to shame, or that shamefully disappoints expectation or falsifies appearance. Affectation is in matters of intellect, taste, etc., much what hypocrisy is in morals and religion; affectation might be termed petty hypocrisy. Compare DECEPTION.

   Synonyms:
   affectation, cant, dissimulation, formalism, hypocrisy, pharisaism, pietism, pretense, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony

   Antonyms:
   candor, frankness, genuineness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, sincerity, transparency, truth, truthfulness

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1. sham

   Synonyms:
   phantom, ghost, delusion, illusion, mockery, shadow, pretence, counterfeit, unreality

   Antonyms:
   substance, reality, verity, substantiality, truth

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1. fake, sham, postichenoun

   something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

   Synonyms:
   impostor, shammer, imposter, fraud, pretender, postiche, faker, juke, role player, pseudo, sham, fake, pseud, hairpiece, false hair

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt

2. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playeradjective

   a person who makes deceitful pretenses

   Synonyms:
   histrion, fraud, imposter, pseudo, fake, dissimulator, faker, player, pretender, fraudulence, juke, role player, hoax, dissembler, put-on, humbug, shammer, actor, pseud, hypocrite, phoney, sham, phony, postiche, impostor, dupery, malingerer, thespian, skulker

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt

3. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, shamverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   off-key, fancied, fake, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, simulated, put on, fictional, assumed, false, faux, fictitious, sham, fabricated, pretended, untrue

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine

4. simulate, assume, sham, feignverb

   make a pretence of

   "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

   Synonyms:
   pretend, adopt, take for granted, arrogate, get into, accept, strike, dissemble, take on, imitate, acquire, usurp, simulate, assume, put on, presume, affect, feign, take, model, sham, take over, seize, don, take up, bear, wear, copy

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt

5. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissembleverb

   make believe with the intent to deceive

   "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

   Synonyms:
   bear upon, make believe, mask, touch, cloak, touch on, strike, dissemble, move, assume, involve, pretend, venture, simulate, impress, affect, hazard, feign, act, impact, sham, guess, profess, bear on, regard, make

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt

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1. shamverb

   Synonyms:
   feign, pretend, make pretence of

2. shamnoun

   Synonyms:
   imposture, imposition, trick, fraud, feint, delusion, humbug, pretence, clap-trap

3. shamadjective

   Synonyms:
   pretended, false, assumed, counterfeit, mock, spurious, clap-trap, make-believe, not real

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1. shamadjective

   Synonyms:
   counterfeit, spurious, pretended, dummy, unreal false, mock, simulated

2. shamnoun

   Synonyms:
   pretense, feint, delusion, imposition, mockery, fraud, imitation, dissimulation, simulation

3. shamverb

   Synonyms:
   feign, pretend, imitate, personate, dissimulate

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1. List of paraphrases for "sham":

   farce, bluff, shum, fictitious, charade, masquerade, travesty, shenzhen-hong, false, mockery, mock, deep, hypocritical, deception, scam, fictional, fraud

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1. White House:

   ( House) Speaker( Nancy) Pelosi and White House Democrats are running an unfair, unconstitutional and illegitimate' impeachment' proceeding. The Democrats' sham hearings provide zero due process to The President and are being conducted entirely in secret, except for the out-of-context parts that( White House) Chairman( Adam) Schiff determines should be selectively leaked to the press. The President can not be expected to participate in this illegitimate process.

2. Donald Trump:

   I call it the rigged witch hunt, [ it ] is a sham. And these people led it ! so I think it's something that had to be done.

3. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   Unless Speaker Nancy Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees, Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts.

4. Marc Short:

   The American people are tired of this sham.

5. President Bill Clinton:

   This is another baseless political attack from House Republicans who just spent two years and $7 million of taxpayer money on the sham Benghazi Committee and are now just regurgitating the debunked claims from the widely discredited book‘Clinton Cash,’.