sham
noun
something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
was shamming
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past progressiveof sham.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I also saw him, of course, at exercise continually, and I saw that he was becoming insane, and was being treated as if he was shamming.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
He was not even sure if Cluny was shamming, pretending that his injuries were severe merely as some kind of test or trap that he had set for his captains.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
He felt certain that the man in bed was shamming, that he was hardly sick at all.
From Joe the Hotel Boy by Horatio Alger
Then, at last, Pat's colleen lover began to have suspicions that he was not really blind—that the idle good-for-nothing fellow was shamming.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
You know I was shamming when I acted as though I had lost my identity.
From The White Desert by Anton Otto Fischer
