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What (who) is sham - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Sham (disambiguation)
sham
(shams)
Something that is a sham is not real or is not really what it seems to be.
The government's promises were exposed as a hollow sham...
N-COUNT: usu sing [disapproval]
sham
¦ noun
1. a person or thing that is not what they are purported to be.
2. pretence.
¦ adjective bogus; false.
¦ verb (shams, shamming, shammed)
1. falsely present something as the truth.
2. pretend to be or to be experiencing.
Derivatives
shammer noun
Origin
C17: perh. a north. Engl. dialect var. of shame.
sham
1. To look through, as in browsing or leafing through.
2. Unneccesary looking through with no final outcome.
1. So, yeah, the other day I was shamming through some old books.
2. He's such a shammer, never deciding upon one thing.
2. Unneccesary looking through with no final outcome.
1. So, yeah, the other day I was shamming through some old books.
2. He's such a shammer, never deciding upon one thing.
Examples of use of sham
1. Rice said the country experienced "a sham election," followed by a sham sharing of power.
2. "There has been a sham election, there was a sham power–sharing.
3. The trial of the leaders of the CUD, civil society organizations and the journalists is sham and the courts are sham.
4. Federal investigators alleged, however, that the deals were a sham.
5. They and Maoist rebels say the elections are a sham.