sham (250 synonym found)

Sham has 250 synonyms. The top synonyms for sham are shammer, outward show, Tartuffery, colorable, humbuggery, smoke screen, made-up, counterfeit and 242 more. Another word for sham is shammer. Browse the full list below.

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

Frequently asked questions

What is a synonym for sham?

A common synonym for sham is shammer. Other synonyms include outward show, Tartuffery, colorable, humbuggery.

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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