Definition of sham
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Examples of sham in a Sentence
He claims that the trial was a sham.
Their marriage was a sham.
Many people believed he could help them, but I knew he was a sham.
She exposed their sham and hypocrisy.
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How can anyone be happy that the board is returning to its mandated monthly meetings when every other meeting is a sham?
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Though the events were supposed to be for educating prescribers on the drug, authorities contend the program was a sham.
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Human rights groups said the closed-door trial was a sham.
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Hanna and her colleagues reach a clear conclusion: Jakarta’s HOV policy was helping, despite the professional passengers making it look like a big sham.
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Prosecutors have claimed t he agreement between Blanton and Shkreli, termed a consulting agreement, was a sham.
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Confronting China, which has dismissed the ruling as a sham, risks sparking an armed conflict that the Philippines would surely lose, Duterte contended.
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Confronting China, which has dismissed the ruling as a sham, risks sparking an armed conflict that the Philippines would surely lose, Duterte contended.
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As the Brookings Institution revealed yesterday, the much touted $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia that Trump claimed as an achievement looks to be a sham.
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Origin and Etymology of sham
perhaps from English dialect sham shame, alteration of English shame
Synonym Discussion of sham
sham
Definition of sham
Examples of sham in a Sentence
a sofa upholstered in sham leather
street vendors selling sham designer handbags to gullible tourists
Recent Examples of sham from the Web
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Voters must continue to tell their states why standing up to Trump and his sham commission is important and the right thing to do.
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First off, the researchers noted hyperactivity in cortical pyramidal neurons in the S1 brain region of mice with chronic pain, compared with those in mice that underwent a sham operation.
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Twelve men and women are accused of creating sham marriages to help foreigners evade U.S. immigration laws.
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Warmbier was sentenced in a sham trial to 15 years of hard labor and imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months.
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After a sham trial, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
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Other countries have periodically expelled Al Jazeera journalists and tried to block its satellite signal; Egypt arrested three staffers in 2013 on sham charges of reporting false news and terrorism, and held them in custody for more than a year.
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According to the New York state regulators, the bank’s oversight lapses allowed some clients in Russia to engage in a sham securities-trading scheme that moved money out of that country and into offshore accounts.
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A San Francisco federal judge is leaning toward rejecting some of the terms of a $142-million settlement aimed at ending a bevvy of class-action lawsuits against Wells Fargo & Co. over its sham accounts scandal.
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First Known Use of sham
1681
sham
Definition of sham
shammed
;shamming
transitive verb
: to go through the external motions necessary to counterfeit
intransitive verb
: to act intentionally so as to give a false impression : feign
Examples of sham in a Sentence
She wasn't really hurt; she was only shamming.
He was shamming illness to avoid work.
Recent Examples of sham from the Web
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In this family you are not shamed for ill health, vulnerability or weakness.
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But the criticism Stage has received from both of her pregnancies is an important reminder that every pregnancy looks different, and no pregnant woman should be shamed about how her belly — or any part of her body, for that matter — looks.
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Still, the Jaguar XF shames the Mercedes with an extra 2.7 inches of legroom in the front and an additional inch in back.
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In the first 48 minutes alone, a young girl is assaulted, a man is stabbed with a pitchfork, and a local teacher is publicly shamed with all the righteous fury of a Hawthorne novel.
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But the idea that Sean Spicer has been body-shamed out of the spotlight still holds a patina of plausibility.
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Okja, on its surface, has little to do with So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.
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Social media users slammed her for body-shaming the woman and invading her privacy.
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Note: victim shaming or blaming under the guise of asking for more data should be at the top of that list.
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First Known Use of sham
1702
Synonym Discussion of sham
SHAM Defined for English Language Learners
sham
playDefinition of sham for English Language Learners
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: something that is not what it appears to be and that is meant to trick or deceive people
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: someone who deceives people by pretending to be a particular kind of person, to have a particular skill, etc.
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: words or actions that are not sincere or honest
sham
Definition of sham for English Language Learners
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: not real
sham
Definition of sham for English Language Learners
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: to act in a way that is meant to trick or deceive people
SHAM Defined for Kids
Medical Dictionary
sham
playMedical Definition of sham
: being a treatment or procedure that is performed as a control and that is similar to but omits a key therapeutic element of the treatment or procedure under investigation sham surgery, in which doctors make an incision in a patient's knee and manipulate the joint, but don't clean out fluid, debris, and torn cartilage—Liz Kowalczyk a sham injection of saline solution
Law Dictionary
Legal Definition of sham
: something that is false, deceptive, misleading, or otherwise not genuine
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