sham
noun
something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
have shammed
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present perfectof sham.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It was just through my simplicity, and I never have shammed a fit on purpose in my life.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All that meant she did not love him;—she might have shammed the love.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Look you, all have been talking, and I have shammed dead like a stink-cat when dogs are about; now I am going to begin.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Henry Rider Haggard
It was a more useful blind than his cobbling, or he would have shammed illness and got quit of it.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He would have shammed illness if there had been the slightest chance of being believed.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
