sham
noun
something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
shammed
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past participleof sham.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof sham.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
shamnounsomething that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
Example Sentences
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I don’t feel like I got shammed or look like a fool.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018
To get shut of him, she shammed dead.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
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
To escape service in the front-line trenches the soldiers shammed gas-poisoning and resorted to other devices to avoid duty.
Some shammed mortal illness: "You see I am at my last gasp."
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
