sham (250 synonym found)

Sham has 250 synonyms. The top synonyms for sham are humbuggery, affected, facade, dash, stratagem, ersatz, artificiality, rip-off and 242 more. Another word for sham is humbuggery. Browse the full list below.

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humbuggery
affected
facade
dash
stratagem
ersatz
artificiality
rip-off
coloring
paste
meretriciousness
pseudo
pretension
histrionize
make like
perverted
plagiarized
pageantry
delusion
pose
dissimulation
playact
etalage
cheating
dissemble
bluffing
pretext
dramatize
fake
quacksalver
fanfaronade
false
window dressing
assumed
splurge
refuge
make as if
let on like
dissimulate
let on
fakery
disguise
clinquant
attitudinizing
counterfeit
trick
phony
quasi
cover up
exhibitionism
so-called
blazon
airs
put on
outward show
deceit
wear
play possum
make-believe
lame excuse
smoke screen
burlesque
gilt
ringer
flam
blagueur
queer
profess
factitious
cover story
pretended
hypocrisy
dramatics
unnatural
playacting
excuse
put-up job
gammon
faked
posing
play a scene
deception
pretense
snide
veil
guise
dissemblance
feigning
spurious
made-up
exhibition
whited sepulcher
distorted
staginess
assume
quack
feign
poor excuse
figure
feigned
make out like
falsified
affect
unauthentic
vaunt
counterfeited
pretender
warped
junky
mannerism
daring
cloak
fraudulent
flaunt
self-styled
tin
titivated
forged
put-off
stylishness
brummagem
face
semblance
fourflusher
pecksniffery
pharisaicalness
spectacle
sell
four-flush
seeming
garbled
false show
create
frame-up
hypocritical
farce
pharisaism
acting
imposture
colorable
airs and graces
dissembling
adulterated
fictitious
mislead
simulacrum
act a part
blind
splash
shammer
sanctimoniousness
ungenuine
humbug
cant
imitate
mere show
flair
histrionics
posture
ostensible motive
parade
colored
bluffer
varnish
mask
apocryphal
feigned belief
tinsel
unnaturalness
dummy
insincerity
dressed up
affectedness
public image
public motive
gloss
make believe
impostor
put-on
impersonator
put on airs
faker
stalking-horse
malingerer
flourish
quackster
simulate
shoddy
manifestation
supposititious
four-flushing
unreal
sanctimony
flaunting
bravura
do a bit
Tartuffery
embellished
forgery
showing-off
pinchbeck
fakement
mock
fictive
apology
make a pretense
feint
bogus
invent
hoax
false front
affectation
overact
spoof
bluff
subterfuge
tug the heartstrings
twisted
prunes and prisms
brilliancy
play a part
simulated
cover-up
soi-disant
theatrics
faking
saltimbanco
color
copy
man-made
alibi
pageant
locus standi
hypocriticalness
false air
junk
front
hokey
Tartuffism
artificial
speciousness
embroidered
ape
putting on airs
masquerade
poseur
pretend
eclat
travesty
ostentation

Frequently asked questions

What is a synonym for sham?

A common synonym for sham is humbuggery. Other synonyms include affected, facade, dash, stratagem.

How many synonyms does sham have?

Sham has 250 synonyms listed on Thesaurasize.

What does sham mean?

(n): a fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine; trickery, hoaxing Example: "the time-share deal was a sham." (v): to deceive, cheat, lie Example: "you were shammed by the pool shark."

Definition of sham:

(n) : a fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine; trickery, hoaxing
"the time-share deal was a sham."
(v) : to deceive, cheat, lie
"you were shammed by the pool shark."
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Definition of sham:

(n) : a fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine; trickery, hoaxing
"the time-share deal was a sham."
(v) : to deceive, cheat, lie
"you were shammed by the pool shark."
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