Shammer - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈʃæmʌr|  American pronunciation of the word shammer
Brit.  |ˈʃæmə|

noun

- someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity (syn: malingerer)
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses (syn: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, sham)

Extra examples

He claims that the trial was a sham.

Their marriage was a sham.

Many people believed he could help them, but I knew he was a sham.

She exposed their sham and hypocrisy.

...a sofa upholstered in sham leather...

...street vendors selling sham designer handbags to gullible tourists...

She wasn't really hurt; she was only shamming.

He was shamming illness to avoid work.

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