SHAMMING Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

shamming 1 of 2

noun

as in duplicity

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shamming

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verb

present participle of sham

as in pretending

to present a false appearance of shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy

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Noun

But honesty doesn’t always save a career, and duplicity doesn’t always sink one.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026
Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026

Definition of duplicity

Verb

But the favor economy has a bias problem baked into its wiring, and pretending otherwise helps no one.

— Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
In the minute-long video, he can be seen dancing, bouncing a basketball and pretending to play a mini violin as rock music played in the background.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 8 July 2026

Definition of pretending

Noun

That’s the deficiency side of integrity—where authenticity gives way to fakery, consistency erodes into unpredictability, and transparency slips into manipulation…But swing too far in the other direction, and the skyscraper becomes overly rigid—too stiff to sway with the wind.

— Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
The green-screen effects are knowing in their outright fakery; the nerdiness of the whole enterprise is lampshaded with a whole setpiece in a comic-book store.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 June 2026

Definition of fakery

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These tasks include simulating how molecules interact to help scientists design new drugs, discovering materials that could improve technologies such as solar panels and batteries, and advancing fields such as cryptography.

— Aldo Romero, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
The renderer then uses the Neo Geo hardware to efficiently scale sprites into 16-pixel-wide strips, simulating the wall’s size and position in that column of the screen.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Definition of simulating

Noun

In the wrong hands, those points of reference could land like an affectation, but instead, the band’s embrace of them feels genuine.

— Nick Laskin, Pitchfork, 20 May 2026
The 33-year-old Indianapolis native can trace its origins to a natural inclination toward performing and a lifelong admiration of Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric, but there's no step-by-step guide on how Sullivan mastered the affectation.

— Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 4 May 2026

Definition of affectation

Verb

One of the biggest mistakes that business leaders make amid expansion is assuming customers in new markets have the same wants, needs, emotional reactions and behaviors.

— Andrea Aker, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
In addition, the vote-by-mail ballots postmarked before or on Election Day need to be counted, too — assuming they are received by a county elections office no later than seven days after the election, the secretary of state’s office said.

— Paris Barraza, USA Today, 17 July 2026

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