Definition of sham

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Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.

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Frontless :: Frontless (a.) Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.
Shame :: Shame (v. t.) To mock at; to deride.
Infamously :: Infamously (adv.) In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say..
Shame :: Shame (v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame..
Bashless :: Bashless (a.) Shameless; unblushing.
Reproach :: Reproach (v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
Disgrace :: Disgrace (n.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
Shaman :: Shaman (n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Factitious :: Factitious (a.) Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste..
Affrontedly :: Affrontedly (adv.) Shamelessly.
Hangdog :: Hangdog (a.) Low; sneaking; ashamed.
Bogus :: Bogus (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit..
Shambling :: Shambling (n.) An awkward, irregular gait..
Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level..
Flagitious :: Flagitious (a.) Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc..
Abash :: Abash (v. t.) To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit..
Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame..
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