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Feigned
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shammed
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed , false , fictitious , fictive , pretended , put ...
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vb. (en-past of: sham )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sham \Sham\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shammed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shamming .] To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.] We must have a care that ...
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When you talk about shammed insanity you're looking for a close analogy to the Lapeyrot case, in which the murderers, if I may put it this way, had a particular audience in mind all along: they purposely left clues to give the police a puzzle to solve.