  Definition of Sham     1. That which deceives expectation; any
trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-
believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.   2. A false front, or
removable ornamental covering.   3. False; counterfeit;
pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.   4. To trick; to
cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.   5. To
obtrude by fraud or imposition.   6. To assume the manner and
character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.   7. To make false
pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.  Sham Quotations
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits  This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real
stuff. Marion Barry  Jesse Ventura  If you cannot learn to love
real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William
Morris  An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with
trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can
preserve that public virtue without which popular government is
a sham and a mockery. Joseph P