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Sham

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a fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine

fake, sham, postiche(noun)

something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player(adj)

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham(verb)

adopted in order to deceive

"an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

simulate, assume, sham, feign(verb)

make a pretence of

"She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble(verb)

make believe with the intent to deceive

"He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials

a sofa upholstered in sham leather

being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud

street vendors selling sham designer handbags to gullible tourists

lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

the sham friendliness of a salesman trying to sell you something

a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something

condemned the rigged election as a total sham

an imitation that is passed off as genuine

the diamond turned out to be a sham

one who makes false claims of identity or expertise

that supposed French movie star was a sham

to present a false appearance of

shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy

Because so many people want a European passport, sham marriages are on the rise.

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genuine natural real authentic bona fide genuine real unfaked artless genuine natural spontaneous unaffected uncontrived unfeigned unforced

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