sham (n.)
- act
- acting
- affect
- affectation
- affectedness
- airs
- alibi
- ape
- apology
- appearance
- artificiality
- bastard
- blazon
- blind
- bluff
- bluffer
- bravura
- brilliancy
- brummagem
- burlesque
- cant
- caricature
- charlatan
- cheat
- cheating
- cloak
- color
- colored
- coloring
- copy
- counterfeit
- cover
- cover-up
- daring
- dash
- deceit
- deception
- delusion
- demonstration
- device
- disguise
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- dramatics
- dummy
- eclat
- ersatz
- excuse
- exhibition
- exhibitionism
- facade
- face
- fake
- faker
- fakery
- falsity
- farce
- feigning
- feint
- figure
- flair
- flam
- flaunt
- flourish
- forgery
- frame-up
- fraud
- front
- gammon
- gilt
- gloss
- guise
- handle
- histrionics
- hoax
- hokey
- humbug
- hypocrisy
- illegitimate
- image
- imitation
- impersonator
- impostor
- imposture
- insincerity
- junk
- junky
- lie
- make-believe
- malingerer
- manifestation
- mannerism
- mask
- masquerade
- meretriciousness
- mock
- mountebank
- ostentation
- pageant
- pageantry
- parade
- paste
- phony
- pinchbeck
- plaster
- play
- playacting
- pose
- poser
- poseur
- posing
- posture
- pretend
- pretender
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- protestation
- pseudo
- put-on
- quack
- queer
- refuge
- representation
- ringer
- rip-off
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- screen
- sell
- semblance
- shammer
- shoddy
- show
- simulacrum
- simulation
- speciousness
- spectacle
- splash
- splurge
- spoof
- staginess
- stalking-horse
- stratagem
- stylishness
- substitute
- subterfuge
- swindle
- synthetic
- tin
- tinsel
- travesty
- trick
- unnaturalness
- varnish
- vaunt
- veil
- wear
sham (v.)
- act
- affect
- airs
- alibi
- ape
- assume
- blazon
- blind
- bluff
- burlesque
- cant
- caricature
- cheat
- cloak
- color
- copy
- counterfeit
- cover
- create
- dash
- disguise
- display
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- dramatize
- dummy
- excuse
- face
- fake
- false
- farce
- feign
- feint
- figure
- flam
- flaunt
- flourish
- fraud
- front
- gloss
- guise
- handle
- hoax
- humbug
- image
- imitate
- invent
- junk
- lie
- mask
- masquerade
- mislead
- mock
- overact
- parade
- paste
- plaster
- play
- playact
- pose
- posture
- pretend
- profess
- quack
- queer
- screen
- sell
- show
- simulate
- splash
- splurge
- spoof
- substitute
- swindle
- tin
- tinsel
- travesty
- trick
- varnish
- vaunt
- veil
- wear
sham (adj.)
- act
- acting
- adulterated
- affected
- airs
- ape
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bastard
- blind
- bluff
- bogus
- brummagem
- burlesque
- cant
- cheating
- clinquant
- color
- colored
- counterfeit
- cover
- daring
- dash
- distorted
- dummy
- embellished
- ersatz
- face
- factitious
- fake
- false
- feigned
- fictitious
- fictive
- figure
- forged
- fraudulent
- front
- garbled
- gilt
- hokey
- hypocritical
- illegitimate
- imitation
- made-up
- make-believe
- man-made
- mask
- mock
- perverted
- phony
- pinchbeck
- plagiarized
- play
- pose
- posing
- pretend
- pretended
- pseudo
- quack
- quasi
- queer
- screen
- seeming
- self-styled
- shoddy
- simulated
- snide
- so-called
- soi-disant
- spurious
- substitute
- supposititious
- synthetic
- tin
- twisted
- unauthentic
- unnatural
- unreal
- warped
- wear
