Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shams; an impostor; a liar; a trickster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who shams; an impostor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
shams ; aliar
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- noun someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
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Examples
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'shammer' will most likely end up where he was a year ago, Hangin 'with his turtle creek buddies and snorting coke.
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'shammer' will most likely end up where he was a year ago, Hangin 'with his turtle creek buddies and snorting coke.
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'shammer' will most likely end up where he was a year ago, Hangin 'with his turtle creek buddies and snorting coke.
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Obama is a shammer, and he's got you all bamboozled.
Full Text Of Obama's Big Race Speech: A Big Break With Political Precedent 2009
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It was impossible for even the most shameless shammer of sleep to hold out any longer.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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He was a good-hearted man at the bottom, however, and as tender as a woman in cases of real suffering; though woe to the malingerer or shammer of illness who incautiously ventured within reach of his caustic tongue!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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The sham is often so perfect an image of the reality that even the shammer is deceived.
Power Through Repose Annie Payson Call 1896
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"He's quite right, sir," said Harry Girdwood, "you are inimitable as a shammer."
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871
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A _sham trade_, like hundreds of other sham trades; and the shammer and the shamefuller, because women demean themselves to it.
The Other Girls 1865
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The building will not be permitted to exceed 36 feet in height. shammer at 2:56 PM September 13, 2011
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