Definition of "shams" []

• Plural form of sham. (noun)

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• "She has seen the poverty and insincerity of society; she has quarrelled with what she calls the shams of sacred things, the merely conventional marriage, the God of bigotry and hypocrisy, the government of oppression and fraud; but she ends by recognizing and demanding the marriage of heart, the God of enlightened faith, the government of order and progress."
• "After the van is clean, the driveway shiny and wet, Daddy gets the tubes that hold the smooth towels he calls shams, pulls out one for him and one for me."
• "The boy racers - fondly referred to locally as 'shams' - cruise with their 'shamettes' up and down Main Street."