Shamname

• 1

  A surname.

shamadj詞源 1/ˈʃæm/

• 1

  Intended to deceive; false.

  • It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another, but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.
  • Artiles, a Republican operative with a reputation for a foul mouth and sharp elbows, is accused of financing a sham candidate whose candidacy was intended to siphon votes from a legitimate Democratic candidate in a state Senate race in South Florida’s 37th District. The candidate has the same last name as then-Democratic incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez but did not actively campaign for the seat and has since admitted being recruited as a spoiler.
• 2

  Counterfeit; unreal.

  • For this young lady was not able to carry out any emotion to the full; but had a sham enthusiasm, a sham hatred, a sham love, a sham taste, a sham grief, each of which flared and shone very vehemently for an instant, but subsided and gave place to the next sham emotion.
  • For the subject-cities, having secured a moderate form of government, and having no fear of being called to account for their proceedings, aimed at absolute freedom; they scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.

shamnoun詞源 1/ˈʃæm/

• 1

  A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.

  • The time-share deal was a sham.
• 2

  Trickery, hoaxing.

  • A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
  • Tarzan would have none of it, and so he hunted alone that none might discover the sham that he was practicing.
• 3

  A false front, or removable ornamental covering.

• 4

  A decorative cover for a pillow.

shamverb詞源 1/ˈʃæm/

• 1

  To deceive, cheat, lie.

  • He shammed a migraine to avoid the exam.
  • they find themſelves Fool'd and Shamm'd (as we ſay) into a Conviction.
• 2

  To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

  • But we muſt have a care all this while, not to […] Sham Fallacyes upon the World for Current Reaſon
• 3

  To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

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