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trivial, unimportant, slight, frivolous, idle, foolish: If you
read only comic books, your thoughts are bound to be shallow. 2
Often, shallows. shoal(s), sand bar, sandbank, bank, shelf:
This boat draws too much water to go fishing in the shallows.
sham n. 1 fake, fraud, counterfeit, imitation, hoax, humbug,
pretence, forgery, copy, imposture, Colloq phoney or US also
phony: Their call for reform is a sham, as they have no
intention of disturbing the status quo.
--adj. 2 fake, fraudulent, counterfeit, imitation, paste,
simulated, false, make-believe, fictitious, made-up, bogus,
spurious, mock, ersatz, artificial, synthetic, Colloq phoney or
US also phony, pseudo: He sat there feigning interest, a sham
smile on his face.
shambles n. chaos, devastation, mess, disaster, Augean stables, pigsty,
muddle, pigpen: I can't find anything in this shambles. The
campaign degenerated into a complete shambles.
shambling adj. shuffling, lumbering, dragging, scuttling, awkward,
clumsy, lurching, unsteady, faltering: The old beggar hobbled
off with a shambling gait.
shame n. 1 embarrassment, humiliation, mortification, chagrin,
ignominy, shamefacedness, loss of face, abashment: Watts felt
abysmal shame at being discovered stealing from petty cash. 2
disgrace, ignominy, dishonour, disrepute, degradation,
opprobrium, vilification, calumniation, infamy, obloquy, odium,
contempt, scandal, denigration, loss of face, defamation,
discredit, disesteem, disfavour, derogation, disparagement: To
think that one knight's single act of cowardice in 1249 could
have brought such shame to all his descendants. 3 pity,
calamity, disaster, catastrophe; outrage: What a shame that
Gerry failed the exam! 4 humility, modesty, (sense of) decency
or decorum or propriety, respectability, decorousness,
diffidence, shyness, coyness, prudishness, timidity,
shamefacedness: The people who wear bathing suits like that
obviously have no shame at all. 5 put to shame. a surpass,
eclipse, outclass, overshadow, cast into the shade, outdo,
outstrip, outshine, show up: Cochrane put his opponents to
shame when they failed to score a single point against him. b
See 8, below.