bogus; false:a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage
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Universal
1a thing that is not what it is purported to be:our current free health service is a sham [mass noun] pretence:George abhorred sham and affectation a person who pretends to be someone or something they are not:he was a sham, totally unqualified for his job as a senior doctor
falsely present something as the truth:was he ill or was he shamming? [with object] pretend to be or to be experiencing:she shams indifference [no object, with complement]:the opossum escapes danger by shamming dead