sham
/ʃam/
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American sound/ʃam/
sham
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ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။ …ချင်ယောင် ဆောင် သည်။ sham illness/death/sleep ❍ He's only shamming.
n (usu derog )
၁။ [C] (က) အယောင်ဆောင်။ ယောင်ခြောက် ဆယ်။ She claims to know all about computers but really she's a sham.
(ခ) (usu sing ) အတုအယောင်။ အလိမ်။ ဟန်ပြ။ His love was a sham—he only wanted her money. ❍ Their marriage had become a complete sham.
၂။ [U] အရေခြုံ။ အယောင်ဆောင်။ They have intellectual pretentions but it is all sham.
adj (usu derog ) အယောင်ဆောင်။ အတု။ a sham marriage ❍ sham jewellery.
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pretense, deception, facade, charade, con, fraud, act, adulterated, affect, affected, ape, artificial, assume, assumed, bluff, bogus, burlesque, cant, caricature, charlatan, cheat, copy, counterfeit, cover-up, create, deceit, do a number, dummy, ersatz, fake, fake it, fakery, false, false front, farce, feign, feigned, feint, fictitious, flimflam, forged, forgery, fraudulent, hoax, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, imitate, imitation, impostor, imposture, invent, jive, lie, lying, make like, make-believe, mislead, misleading, mock, mockery, pharisaism, phoniness, phony, plaster, play, play possum, pretend, pretended, pretext, pseudo, put it on, put on, put up a front, put-on, sell, shuck and jive, simulate, simulated, smoke, snow job, so-called, spoof, spurious, substitute, sucker, synthetic, travesty, trick, untrue, whitewash
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