sham (redirected from shams)

False; without substance.

A sham Pleading is one that is good in form but is so clearly false in fact that it does not raise any genuine issue.

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sham noun chicanery, counterfeit, deception, delusion, dolus, fabrication, fake, fallacia, false show, feint, forgery, fraud, fraus, guise, imitation, impersonation, impostor, imposture, masquerade, misrepresentation, mock, reproduction, simulacrum, simulation, trick, trickery
Associated concepts: sham defense, sham pleading

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See also: artifice, bogus, cloak, colorable, cover, deceit, deception, deceptive, delusive, disguise, duplicity, evasion, fabricate, fake, false, false pretense, falsify, feign, fictitious, forgery, fraud, fraudulent, hoax, imitation, imposture, invent, mendacious, meretricious, misrepresent, pretend, pretense, pretext, prevaricate, profess, recreant, role, ruse, specious, spurious, subterfuge