Vi fant 12 definisjoner av sham på engelsk.
Adjective |
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| sham - 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" | ||
| assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on | ||
| counterfeit, imitative not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" | ||
Noun |
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| sham - a person who makes deceitful pretenses | ||
| imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player | ||
| cheater, deceiver, beguiler, slicker, trickster, cheat someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | ||
| name dropper someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends | ||
| sham - something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | ||
| fake, postiche | ||
| imitation copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | ||
| fake book a fake in the form of an imitation book; used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly | ||
Verb |
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| sham - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" | ||
| feign, pretend, affect, dissemble | ||
| belie, misrepresent represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" | ||
| play possum to pretend to be dead | ||
| take a dive pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer | ||
| bullshit, talk through one's hat, fake, bull speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it" | ||
| mouth articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" | ||
| sham - make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" | ||
| simulate, assume, feign | ||
| dissemble, pretend, act behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" | ||
| play engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea" | ||
| feint deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot" | ||
