Sham

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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.”

2. sıfat 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.”

3. isim A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.

   “The time-share deal was a sham.”

4. isim Trickery, hoaxing.

   “A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.”

5. isim A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
6. isim A decorative cover for a pillow.
7. fiil To deceive, cheat, lie.

   “they find themſelves Fool'd and Shamm'd (as we ſay) into a Conviction.”

8. fiil 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”

9. fiil To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
10. isim Clipping of champagne.

    “So I orders a bottle, as if for myself; and, ‘Ma’am, says I, ‘will you take a glass of Sham—just one?’”

11. özel isim A surname.