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📖 Определения и значения для слова sham

📒 a situation, feeling, system, etc. that is not as good or true as it seems to be

  • She felt trapped in a sham of a marriage.

📒 a person who pretends to be something that they are not

  • The article exposes him for the sham that he really is.

📒 behaviour, feelings, words, etc. that are intended to make somebody/something seem to be better than they really are

  • Their promises turned out to be full of sham and hypocrisy.
  • His intellectual pretensions are all sham.
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