English-Italian translations for sham

• falso
• fasullo
  Tutti i colloqui devono basarsi sul risultato delle elezioni del 29 marzo vinte dall'MDC e non sul ballottaggio fasullo di giugno. All talks must be based on the outcome of the 29 March election which the MDC won and not on the sham run-off in June.
• finta
  Il mio timore è che non esiste alcun parallelismo fra le condizioni del datore di lavoro e quelle del lavoratore, per cui i lavoratori vengono spinti in una specie di finta libera professione. I am particularly afraid that there may be no parallelism between the circumstances of employers and employees, so that employees are forced into 'sham' self-employment.
• trucco

Definition of sham

• Intended to deceive; false
• counterfeit; unreal
• A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine
• Trickery, hoaxing
• A false front, or removable ornamental covering
• To deceive, cheat, lie
• To obtrude by fraud or imposition
• To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign

Examples

• It was only a sham wedding: they didnt care much for one another, but wanted their parents to stop hassling them
• The time-share deal was a sham
• A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit

Related words

• shame
• ashame
• shamrock
• shampoo
• shaman
• ashamed
• shameless
• shamanism
• shambles