sham 的 4 个定义
- something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- a person who shams; shammer.
- a cover or the like for giving a thing a different outward appearance: a pillow sham.
- pretended; counterfeit; feigned: sham attacks; a sham Gothic façade.
- designed, made, or used as a sham.
shammed, sham·ming.
- to produce an imitation of.
- to assume the appearance of; pretend to have: to sham illness.
shammed, sham·ming.
- to make a false show of something; pretend.
sham 近义词
artificial, counterfeit
hoax, trick
sham 的近义词 38 个
- farce
- forgery
- fraud
- hypocrisy
- mockery
- travesty
- whitewash
- burlesque
- cant
- caricature
- cheat
- counterfeit
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- facade
- fake
- fakery
- feint
- flimflam
- imitation
- impostor
- imposture
- jive
- mock
- pretend
- pretense
- pretext
- pseudo
- put-on
- sell
- smoke
- spoof
- false front
- hypocriticalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- snow job
sham 的反义词 10 个
trick; pull a hoax
更多sham例句
- When they injected the molecule into the stomachs of normal mice, the rodents were able to remember the location of a platform in an underwater maze and find it three times faster than mice that had received sham injections.
- Yet it has repeatedly refused to seriously challenge the administration of President Vladimir Putin and has effectively served to legitimize the Kremlin’s sham democracy.
- From that second on, I realized it was all a sham, that he was actually shy, funny, sentimental, a joy to be with.
- Artiles allegedly instructed the sham candidate, who did not live in the Miami-area district, to use the address of a property in Palmetto Bay that Alex Rodriguez still owned, but no longer resided at, according to the affidavit.
- The EPA has turned the entire process into “a sham,” said Lianne Sheppard, a professor of biostatistics and environmental health at the University of Washington.
- Islamist brigades including Suqur al-Sham, a 9,000-strong militia, are openly breaking with Western-favored rebel factions.
- Then came the admission of a sham marriage with an immigrant.
- Also in 1997, Hayes entered a sham marriage with a Nigerian immigrant, for which she was paid $5,000.
- Both Iran and the United States share a common enemy in the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
- I remember the first time I heard of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
- Part of that idea was sham bric-à-brac, the rest was carte blanche to Messrs. Spick and Span.
- The camping-out at Streetly Wood has annually recurred since that date; the first sham fight took place June 20, 1877.
- If we nevertheless receive them, it is the effect of His bountiful goodness, and not the result of our sham prayer.
- It is full of deceit, sham, and pharisaism—an aggravated counterpart of the outside world.
- The sham patient sprang to the door at the end of the passage, opened it softly, and stood listening.