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sullen with each moment. — The Pirate Shark;
• (sham)- to assume the appearance of; pretend to have, ( , /
); We know why Lupin shammed the murder of the girl and
spread the rumor of his own death. — The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of
Arsene Lupin;
• (façade)- a superficial appearance or illusion of something, ( );
Beneath that facade are our elite Alpha forces on a clandestine mission to
overthrow the Georgian government. — The St. Petersburg Times;
• the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one, (
); The sole objects in the scene rivaling the fairness of
the facade were a dozen swans floating upon the lake. — Desperate Remedies;
gull = hoax
• (gull)- to deceive, trick, or cheat, ( ; ); I tried him in
several ways, and found that he could be "gulled" more easily than any of the
other messengers. — The Expressman and the Detective;
• (hoax)- to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink, (
, , , , , , ); The explosion of
laughter receiving the two principals when the hoax was revealed caused the
incident to be a sore point to both Lincoln and Shields. — The Lincoln Story
Book;
malinger = shirk = skulk = fiddle = goldbrick
• (malinger)- to pretend illness, esp. in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work,
etc, ( ); To shirk or malinger on the
man who paid me my wages was a sin, first, against myself, and second,
against him. — War of the Classes;
• (shirk)- to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.), (( , ,
) ; ); I can excuse a liar, I can pardon a thief, I
can pity a murderer, but a shirk--no! — A Spinner in the Sun;
• (skulk)- to move in a stealthy manner; slink, (
); They did
not skulk, but neither did they make themselves conspicuous. — 150 - The
Wee Ones;
• (fiddle)- to alter or falsify (accounts, for example) for dishonest gain;
• (goldbrick)- a person, especially a soldier, who avoids assigned duties or
work; a shirker; I was getting goldbrick looks from the men working at their
desks, so I went back to my cubicle. — White Jazz;
bluff = hoodwink = bamboozle