sham

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Psychiatry by and large is a sham field.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sham gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

verb

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sham.

noun

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

noun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

verb

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

verb

make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

See also: feign, pretend, affect, dissemble

adjective

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"

See also: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended

Example sentences

Psychiatry by and large is a sham field.

When we get that, we will realize the sham most of the efforts to reduce healthcare cost is.

To take on this "I don't vote because its a sham" mentality is to play right into their little game.

Following the technical requirements of FCC law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".

But cities are corporations, they aren't allowed to establish courts like this, and it was a complete sham.

Following the technical requirements of copyright law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".

There is no second view within humam rights framework.- Yanukovych's power-sharing offer is a sham.

Whether the charges brought can be proven remains to be seen, but let's not assume this is a sham and a kangaroo court because you consider what Snowden did to be heroic.

It's not hard to imagine Enron executives saying anything, because Enron was a sham business, "faking it until they made it" or, as it happened, fell off a cliff.

But that's not legal; my attempt to produce a fake domicile in Nevada for tax purposes when I clearly lived ~11 months of the year in California would be correctly judged a sham.

Oh, and it might amuse Yahoo employees to know that their recycling program is a complete sham -- everything is emptied into the same trash containers anyway, and the workers are forbidden from taking the cans away to cash in themselves.

Thousands of hours of billable time racked up and this process was maybe 10 or 15% done when I decided to do a very careful analysis of a relatively few key documents only, to put the story in a context that readily demonstrated the sham nature of the "delay damages report," to summarize everything in a 50-page write-up, and to give that to the partner in charge.