something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.

a person who shams; shammer.

a cover or the like for giving a thing a different outward appearance

a pillow sham.

pretended; counterfeit; feigned

sham attacks; a sham Gothic façade.

designed, made, or used as a sham.

to produce an imitation of.

to assume the appearance of; pretend to have

to sham illness.

to make a false show of something; pretend.

adjective

real , true

verb

tell truth

adjective

adulterated , affected , assumed , bogus * , dummy , ersatz * , fake , false , feigned , fictitious , forged , fraudulent , imitation , lying , make-believe , misleading , mock , phony , plaster * , pretend , pretended , pseudo * , simulated , so-called , spurious , substitute , synthetic , untrue , bogus , suppositious , supposititious , apocryphal , artificial , counterfeit , dissimulative , factitious , postiche , pseudo , unreal false

noun

burlesque , cant , caricature , cheat , counterfeit , cover-up , deceit , deception , facade , fake , fakery , false front , farce , feint , flimflam * , forgery , fraud , hypocrisy , hypocriticalness , imitation , impostor , imposture , jive * , mock , mockery , pharisaism , phoniness , pretend , pretense , pretext , pseudo * , put-on , sell , smoke * , snow job * , spoof , travesty , whitewash , phony , parody , acting , disguise , dissemblance , masquerade , show , simulation , affectation , deceitfulness , delusion , dissimulation , imposition , legerdemain , sciamachy , simulacrum , tokenism

verb

act , affect , ape , assume , bluff , copy , counterfeit , create , do a number , fake , fake it , feign , imitate , invent , lie , make like , mislead , mock , play possum * , pretend , put on , put up a front , shuck and jive , simulate , sucker , dissemble , play-act , pose , artificial , bogus , cheat , deceit , deceive , deception , dissimulate , facade , false , farce , feigned , fictitious , flimflam , forgery , fraud , hoax , hypocrisy , imitation , imposter , imposture , mockery , personate , phony , pretense , simulacrum , substitute , synthetic , travesty , trick , trickery