Re: Music ...IMPRESSED that dwight is still in jai

Posted By: All False Things Shall Perish
Date: Saturday, 9 August 2003, at 7:48 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Music ...IMPRESSED that dwight is still in jai (willie survive)

sham
n.
Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine; a spurious imitation.
The quality of deceitfulness; empty pretense.
One who assumes a false character; an impostor: “He a man! Hell! He was a hollow sham!” (Joseph Conrad).
A decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it: a pillow sham.

adj.
Not genuine; fake: sham diamonds; sham modesty.

v. shammed, sham·ming, shams
v. tr.
To put on the false appearance of; feign: “shamming insanity to get his tormentors to leave him alone” (John Wain).

v. intr.
To assume a false appearance or character; dissemble.

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[Perhaps dialectal variant of shame.]
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shammer n.

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sham

\Sham\, a. False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.

They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians. --Jowett (Thucyd)

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sham

\Sham\, 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 Abraham, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.

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sham

\Sham\, 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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sham

\Sham\, 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 disappoint; 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

sham

adj : 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" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on] n 1: something false; not what it seems to be [syn: fake, postiche] 2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, pseudo, pseud, role player] v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, feign] 2: make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, pretend, affect, dissemble

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