Definition of sham

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Sham (v. t.) To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.

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Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural..
Shamed :: Shamed (imp. & p. p.) of Sham.
Shamer :: Shamer (n.) One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed..
Barefacedly :: Barefacedly (adv.) Openly; shamelessly.
Chamois :: Chamois (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy..
Unbashful :: Unbashful (a.) Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless.
Self-abased :: Self-abased (a.) Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame..
Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man..
Brazen :: Brazen (v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through..
Affront :: Affront (n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.
Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice..
Arrantly :: Arrantly (adv.) Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully..
Profligate :: Profligate (n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Tripsis :: Tripsis (n.) Shampoo.
Dishonesty :: Dishonesty (n.) Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
Sneak :: Sneak (v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company..
Shamoying :: Shamoying (n.) A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning..
Brazen-browed :: Brazen-browed (a.) Shamelessly impudent.
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