sham

/sham/US // ʃæm //UK // (ʃæm) //

虚伪,骗局,骗人的,虚假的

Related Words

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : pretended; counterfeit; feigned: sham attacks; a sham Gothic façade.
- : designed, made, or used as a sham.

v.有主动词 verb

adj.artificial, counterfeit

Synonyms

When they injected the molecule into the stomachs of normal mice, the rodents were able to remember the location of a platform in an underwater maze and find it three times faster than mice that had received sham injections.
Yet it has repeatedly refused to seriously challenge the administration of President Vladimir Putin and has effectively served to legitimize the Kremlin’s sham democracy.
From that second on, I realized it was all a sham, that he was actually shy, funny, sentimental, a joy to be with.
Artiles allegedly instructed the sham candidate, who did not live in the Miami-area district, to use the address of a property in Palmetto Bay that Alex Rodriguez still owned, but no longer resided at, according to the affidavit.
The EPA has turned the entire process into “a sham,” said Lianne Sheppard, a professor of biostatistics and environmental health at the University of Washington.
Islamist brigades including Suqur al-Sham, a 9,000-strong militia, are openly breaking with Western-favored rebel factions.
Then came the admission of a sham marriage with an immigrant.
Also in 1997, Hayes entered a sham marriage with a Nigerian immigrant, for which she was paid $5,000.
Both Iran and the United States share a common enemy in the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
I remember the first time I heard of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

/sham/US // ʃæm //UK // (ʃæm) //

虚伪,骗局,骗人的,虚假的

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : pretended; counterfeit; feigned: sham attacks; a sham Gothic façade.
- : designed, made, or used as a sham.

v.有主动词 verb

adj.artificial, counterfeit

Synonyms

When they injected the molecule into the stomachs of normal mice, the rodents were able to remember the location of a platform in an underwater maze and find it three times faster than mice that had received sham injections.
Yet it has repeatedly refused to seriously challenge the administration of President Vladimir Putin and has effectively served to legitimize the Kremlin’s sham democracy.
From that second on, I realized it was all a sham, that he was actually shy, funny, sentimental, a joy to be with.
Artiles allegedly instructed the sham candidate, who did not live in the Miami-area district, to use the address of a property in Palmetto Bay that Alex Rodriguez still owned, but no longer resided at, according to the affidavit.
The EPA has turned the entire process into “a sham,” said Lianne Sheppard, a professor of biostatistics and environmental health at the University of Washington.
Islamist brigades including Suqur al-Sham, a 9,000-strong militia, are openly breaking with Western-favored rebel factions.
Then came the admission of a sham marriage with an immigrant.
Also in 1997, Hayes entered a sham marriage with a Nigerian immigrant, for which she was paid $5,000.
Both Iran and the United States share a common enemy in the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
I remember the first time I heard of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).