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ashame | sham |

As a verb ashame

is (rare) to make ashamed; to shame.

As a proper noun sham is

syria.

ashame

English

Verb

(asham)
  • (rare) To make ashamed; to shame.
  • * 1740 , The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle , (ed.), vol 10, p. 245 (Google preview):
    • I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raise my fortune considerably had I not got such a Habit of Sweating, which quite ashames me, when in Company.
  • * 1860 , , Julian Home: A Tale of College Life , p. 99 (Google preview):
    • The notice annoyed and ashamed him.
  • * 1983 , Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) Oct 18 - Dec 1 , p. 399 (Google preview):
    • If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore.
  • * 2009 , Steve Scott, Insiders - Outsiders , ISBN 9781907172205, pp. 36-37 (Google preview):
    • They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely.
  • * 2013 Sept. 24, Sudarsan Raghavan, " Kenyan officials say Nairobi mall siege is over," Washington Post (retrieved 30 Sept 2013):
    • “As a nation, our head is bloodied but unbowed,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address, declaring three days of mourning. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers.”

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    sham

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Intended to deceive; false.
    • It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.
  • counterfeit; unreal
  • * Jowett
    • They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.

    Synonyms

    * mock * See also

    Antonyms

    * genuine * sincere * real

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
    • The time-share deal was a sham .
  • Trickery, hoaxing.
    • A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
  • A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
  • A decorative cover for a pillow.

    • Derived terms

    * shamateur

    See also

    * pillow sham

    Verb

    (shamm)
  • To deceive, cheat, lie.
  • * L'Estrange
    • Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
  • To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
  • * L'Estrange
    • We must have a care that we do not sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.
  • To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

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