sham

• "But don't talk so much Must; I want to tell you, I am going to miche--sham, you know--the other way on What do you mean?" —  !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
• "There's my punishment: by something sham--and I ken it's sham too--I must go through life beguiled from right and content. —  Doom Castle
• "It would be despicable to sham, and he would see through it all at once Like many another one in such a position, I gave up thinking at last, and prepared myself for the inevitable After all," I mused, "he may not think me well enough, and then there will be a respite. —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
• I won't act like a sham, even if I am where there's so much Dutch courage. —  Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
• Any other reason or excuse she used was a sham, a self-delusion If she expected a protest, she didn't get it. —  Ten From Infinity

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