n. 25B6; noun
his tenderness had been a sham : PRETENCE, fake, act, fiction, simulation, fraud, feint, lie, counterfeit; humbug.
the doctor was a sham : CHARLATAN, fake, fraud, impostor, pretender; quack, mountebank; informal phoney.
25B6; adjective sham togetherness : FAKE, pretended, feigned, simulated, false, artificial, bogus, insincere, contrived, affected, make-believe, fictitious; imitation, mock, counterfeit, fraudulent; informal pretend, put-on, phoney, pseudo; Brit. informal cod.
genuine.
25B6; verb
she shams indifference : FEIGN, fake, pretend, put on, simulate, affect.
was he ill or just shamming? : PRETEND, fake, dissemble; malinger; informal put it on; Brit. informal swing the lead.