sham

Synonyms

charlatan, fake, faker, fraud, hoaxer, humbug, impostor (or imposter), mountebank, phony (also phoney), pretender, quack, ringer;

Near Antonyms

ace, adept, authority, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard;

Related Words

copycat, imitator, impersonator, mimic;

actor, bluffer, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, duper, feigner, misleader, operator, trickster;

poseur;

cozener, defrauder, dodger, scammer, sharper, sharpie (or sharpy), skinner, swindler;

Synonyms

affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, simulated, strained, unnatural;

Antonyms

artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced;

Near Antonyms

authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true;

honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending;

easy, effortless, smooth;

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied;

Related Words

automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic;

double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous;

exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric);

cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering;

conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden;

artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied;

Synonyms

act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pass (for), pretend, profess, put on, simulate;

Related Words

dissimulate, impersonate, let on, masquerade, play, playact, pose;

forge, imitate;

camouflage, conceal, disguise, mask;

feint;

malinger;

Phrases

make believe;