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Significations et usages de sham
Définition
sham (n.)
1.a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
2.something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
3.a person who makes deceitful pretenses
sham (adj.)
1.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"
sham (v. trans.)
1.make believe with the intent to deceive"He feigned that he was ill" "He shammed a headache"
2.make a pretence of"She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger" "he feigned sleep"
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Merriam Webster
ShamSham (shăm), n. [Originally the same word as shame, hence, a disgrace, a trick. See Shame, n.]
1. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoints; a make-believe; delusion; imposture; humbug. “A mere sham.” Bp. Stillingfleet.
Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. Addison.
2. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
Pillow sham, a covering to be laid on a pillow.
ShamSham, a. False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.
They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians. Jowett (Thucyd)
ShamSham, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shamming.]
1. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.
Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L'Estrange.
2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.]
We must have a care that we do not . . . sham fallacies upon the world for current reason. L'Estrange.
3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
To sham Abram or To sham Abraham, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.
ShamSham, v. i. To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
Wondering . . . whether those who lectured him were such fools as they professed to be, or were only shamming. Macaulay.
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Définition (complément)
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Synonymes
sham (adj.)
assumed, false, feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, put-on, faked (colloquial)
sham (n.)
affected person, deceiver, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, play-actor, poser, poseur, postiche, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, shammer, false appearance (abstract), pretence (abstract, British), show-off (informal)
sham (v.)
affect, counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, simulate
Voir aussi
sham (n.)
↘ counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, forge ↗ act big, affected, beguile into, bilk, bilk out of, boast, brag, brazen it out, cheat, cheat out of, copy, flash, flaunt, flim-flam, fob, fool, fox, give o.s. airs, imitate, lead up the garden path, make a flourish of, make a show of, ostentate, outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre, outsmart, outwit, parade, play a hoax on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, put on the wrong track, rip off, rook, show off, show off with, simulate, strut about, swagger, swank, swindle, swindle out of, take, take for a ride, take in, trick, trick into, trick out of
sham (adj.)
↘ fictional character, fictionally, fictional nature, fictitiously, fictively, imaginarily, in fiction
sham (v. trans.)
↘ make-believe, malingerer, shammer, simulation, simulator, skulker
Locutions
⇨ Sham Treatment • Tarabulus Ash-Sham • pillow sham • sham maneuver • sham manoeuvre • sham marriage
⇨ Al-Sham • Aristo Sham • Bilad ash-Sham • Brad Sham • Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends • Daily Sham • Ey Sham • Helen Sham-Ho • Hoi Sham Island • Jund Ash Sham • Jund al-Sham • Jurat ash-Sham'a • Karin Sham Poo • Kohn–Sham equations • Lydia Sham • Mehmood Sham • Metro Sham Shui • Public housing estates in Sham Shui Po • Ro Sham Bo (album) • Ro-Sham-Bo • Sam the Sham • Sham (horse) • Sham (place) • Sham 69 • Sham Chaurasia gharana • Sham Chun River • Sham Kwok Fai • Sham Kwok Keung • Sham Lal • Sham Mong Road • Sham Pistols • Sham Rock • Sham Shui Po • Sham Shui Po Barracks • Sham Shui Po Camp • Sham Shui Po District • Sham Shui Po Ferry • Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier • Sham Shui Po Park • Sham Shui Po Pier • Sham Shui Po Police Station • Sham Shui Po SA • Sham Shui Po Sports Ground • Sham Shui Po Station • Sham Shui Po Technical School • Sham Stakes • Sham Tseng • Sham Wan Towers • Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral • Sham el-Nessim • Sham election • Sham marriage • Sham peer review • Sham rock knot • Sham rock knots • Sham surgery • Sham-operated group • Shim Sham • Shim Sham Shimmy • Shim Sham, Flim Flam • Strugglers for the Unity and Freedom of al-Sham • That's Life (Sham 69 album) • The Complete Sham 69 Live • The Game (Sham 69 album) • The Sham Mirrors
Dictionnaire analogique
sham (adj.)
counterfeit, imitative[Similaire]
sham (n.)
dissimulation (fr)[Classe]
moyen détourné pour se tirer d'embarras (fr)[Classe]
gaff; cheating; cunning; deceit; trickery; chicanery; chicane; guile; wile; shenanigan[Classe]
affectation; mawkishness[Classe]
acte hypocrite (fr)[DomaineCollocation]
sham (n.)
sham (n.)
outrage; criminal offense; delinquency; criminal act; crime; criminal offence; felony; delict[Classe]
faux, dissimulation, imitation (fr)[ClasseHyper.]
faux (copie délictuelle d'un original) (fr)[Classe]
œuvre peinte (tableau) (fr)[ClasseParExt.]
signer (fr)[termes liés]
imitation[Hyper.]
copy, imitate, simulate[Nominalisation]
act as if, affect, counterfeit, dissemble, feign, pretend, put on an act, sham, simulate - bull, bullshit, fake, speak out of turn, talk through one's hat - counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, forge - cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, swindle, swindle out of, wangle - assumed, faked, false, feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, put-on, sham - fake, false, faux, imitate, imitation, simulated[Dérivé]
sham (n.)
fibber; liar; prevaricator[Classe]
criminal; felon; crook; outlaw; malefactor; crime[Classe]
cheat; deceiver; imposter; impostor; pretender; fake; faker; fraud; sham; shammer; pseudo; pseud; role player; phon(e)y[ClasseHyper.]
beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, twister[Hyper.]
act as if, affect, counterfeit, dissemble, feign, pretend, put on an act, sham, simulate - bull, bullshit, fake, speak out of turn, talk through one's hat - counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, forge - act, dissemble, pretend - assume, feign, sham, simulate - cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, swindle, swindle out of, wangle - assumed, faked, false, feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, put-on, sham - bastard, bogus, fake, phoney, phony[Dérivé]
sham (v. tr.)
belie, misrepresent[Hyper.]
feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation - fake, postiche, sham - dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense - backstabber, canting hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, hypocritical, phoney, phony, pretender, sanctimonious hypocrite - deceiver, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer - malingerer, shammer, simulator, skulker[Dérivé]
affect, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, make, make believe, make out, pretend, profess[Domaine]
sham (v. tr.)
Wikipedia
Sham
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Look up sham in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Sham, a word found in Arabic, English and Chinese, may refer to:
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Arabic use
- Sham, or Alsahm, the Arabic name for the star Alpha Sagittae
- Sham, (Arabic: شام), al-Sham, or Bilad al-Sham, endonym of the region bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, usually known as the Levant or Greater Syria, comprising Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan
- ash-Shām, or Sham (الشام), another name for Damascus, the largest city in the region
- Sham el-Nessim, Egyptian holiday marking the beginning of spring
- Jund al-Sham, terrorist group based in Afghanistan
English use
- Sham, derogatory, for rugs and market items from Syria touted or mis-represented as Persian
- Sham 69, English punk band
- Sam the Sham, stage name of US rock singer Domingo “Sam” Samudio
- Sham, a name for the cover of a pillow
- Sham-operated group, a control group in laboratory experiments involving surgical procedures
- Sham election, another name for a Show election
- Sham marriage, a marriage entered into with intent to deceive
- Sham surgery, surgery omitting the therapeutic component
- Sham peer review, a fraudulent or malicious form of peer review
- Sham, a beer glass that is twice as tall as it is wide, normally wider at the top, and having a half inch thick glass base.
- Sham (1921 film), a lost 1921 silent film based on a Broadway play. The film starred Ethel Clayton.
Chinese use
- Kohn–Sham equations, named after Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Sham Chun River, on the border of Hong Kong and mainland China
- Sham Shui Po District, a district of Hong Kong
- Sham Kwok Fai, association football player from Hong Kong
Other uses
- Sham (horse), American Thoroughbred horse born in 1970 who won multiple graded stakes races (name origin unknown)
- Sham Stakes, a race named for the horse
- Sham, a character in the X-Men 2099 comic book series (name origin unknown)
- The acronym SHAM, which is shorthand for Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode, a climate pattern
See also
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