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What is the adjective for sham?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb sham which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sham
  1. Intended to deceive; false.
  2. counterfeit; unreal
  3. Synonyms:
      4. fake, false, bogus, forged, spurious, phoney, phony, fraudulent, unauthentic, inauthentic, queer, fictitious, snide, cod, manufactured, pseud, untrue, make-believe, not genuine, so-called, counterfeit, fabricated, misleading, deceptive, invented, pretend, delusory, concocted, apocryphal, imaginary, delusive, specious, mock, fallacious, made-up, unreal, trumped-up, chimerical, fabulous, artificial, dishonest, incorrect, erroneous, inaccurate, wrong, unsound, unfounded, cooked-up, made up, contrived … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “A gambling addict who defrauded friends by encouraging them to invest in his sham business has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.”
      “On the first floor, he pushes his way through a door covered in sham leather.”
      “The general moves among his guests with a sham congeniality that fools no one.”
shammish
  1. Characteristic of a sham; deceitful
shammed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sham
  2. Synonyms:
      3. faked, pretended, affected, feigned, simulated, assumed, imitated, mocked, acted, bluffed, counterfeited, dissembled, played, professed, malingered, aped, put it on, made a pretence of, played possum, put on, swung the lead, made like, passed for, put up a front of, faked it, put on an act, posed, fabricated, impersonated, postured, put up a front, mimicked, dissimulated, spoofed, masqueraded, playacted, put on airs, made a show of, contrived, play-acted, parodied, caricatured, made out like, copied, reproduced, burlesqued, kidded, invented, fronted, concocted … more
shamming
  1. present participle of sham
  2. Synonyms:
      3. faking, pretending, affecting, feigning, simulating, assuming, imitating, mocking, acting, bluffing, counterfeiting, dissembling, playing, professing, malingering, aping, putting it on, making a pretence of, playing possum, putting on, swinging the lead, making like, passing for, putting up a front of, faking it, posing, masquerading, dissimulating, posturing, putting on an act, impersonating, putting up a front, fabricating, playacting, mimicking, disguising, giving the appearance of, spoofing, play-acting, doing, putting on a front, making a show of, lying, kidding, putting on a false front, going through the motions of, contriving, falsifying, fronting, doing like … more
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