sham

sahte, düzmece

İnsanları kandırmak için gerçekmiş gibi gösterilen.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Made to seem real in order to trick people.

• They arranged a sham marriage.
• The opposition called it a sham election.
• A sham investigation helped the company hide its mistakes.

Eş anlamlılar: fake, false, bogus

Zıt anlamlılar: genuine, real

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: sham marriage, sham election, sham trial, sham wedding

aldatmaca, düzmece

Gerçek veya dürüst olduğu söylenen ama aslında sahte olan şey.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Something presented as real or honest that is actually false.

• The competition was a sham.
• Their supposed friendship turned out to be a sham.
• She exposed the charity as a sham.

Eş anlamlılar: fake, fraud, pretence

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: a complete sham, a total sham, expose a sham

aldatma, hile

İnsanları kandırmak için sahte şeyleri gerçekmiş gibi gösterme.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: The practice of making false things seem real to trick people.

• He relied on sham and deceit.
• She hated the sham that surrounded court life.
• Their business depended on sham rather than honest work.

Eş anlamlılar: deception, trickery, deceit

Zıt anlamlılar: honesty

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: sham and deceit, sham and trickery, practice of sham

numara yapmak, taklit etmek

Birini kandırmak için gerçek olmayan bir durumu varmış gibi göstermek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To pretend something false is true in order to trick someone.

• He tried to sham illness.
• She shammed a headache to leave early.
• The doctor knew that the patient was shamming.

Nasıl kullanılır: sham something (He shammed an injury to avoid training.)

Eş anlamlılar: fake, feign, pretend

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: sham illness, sham an injury, sham being sick, sham a headache