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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sham .
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Examples
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Having invested so much in worthless paper, rather than actual investments that stimulate economies, we have a poor economy coupled with a finance system that has shammed itself to death.
Matthew Yglesias » Krugman: Centrists Eliminated 600,000 Worth of Jobs From Stimulus Package 2009
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I'm sure you can recall being shammed into throwing away $10 for a bad movie at some point in your life.
M. Night Shyamalan's Trouble in Hollywood - Will The Happening Hit Big? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Rather than have otherwise qualified aspirants tilt at windmills or be shammed with cosmetic social changes, it's seems fair and reasonable to implement mechanisms to compensate for intractable bias.
You Only Need One Steven Barnes 2009
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It is hilarious to me that many of you seemed so concerned about all those poor, unintelligent people that have been shammed!
the palin drone 2008
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Considering that you shammed everyone at who works at Microsoft
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So he called for a fillet and bound his head therewith and shammed sickness.
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I saw her in this pose, I could not withhold myself from thrusting it into her, after I had sucked her lips, whilst she whimpered and shammed shame and wept when no tears came, and then said she,
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We four have shammed blind, and we impose upon people that we may enter houses and look upon the unveiled faces of the women and contrive for their corruption.
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Under the smart of this new desire Rosalie set the stitches of her worsted-work with exquisite precision, and hid her meditations under a little innocent air, which shammed simplicity to deceive
Albert Savarus 2007
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“Bixiou told me you shammed Englishman better than he could, and I would not believe him,” said Rastignac.
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