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shill | sham |

As a noun shill

is a person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.

As a verb shill

is (pejorative) to promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.

As a proper noun sham is

syria.

shill

English

(wikipedia shill)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
    • You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
  • * 1983 , , Prometheus Rising ,
    • Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
  • An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
  • * 1994 , , The Crossing ,
    • The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
  • * 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World ,
    • Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
  • To put under cover; to sheal.
  • (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.

    • Related terms

    * sheep-dip

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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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