Meanings of mere sham in английском

Had her dread of him been fortuitous, his tyranny a mere sham?

The present system leads to mere sham and cram.

Ah, his eyes would tell anybody that his black clothes are not a mere sham.

The parley was a mere sham and decoy.

You are too generous to a mere sham.

Arthur was at that moment in Dora's eyes a mere sham, aping something he could never attain.

Was her encouragement of the poor pedagogue all a mere sham to secure her conquest of his rival?

This flirtation, which to Justa was a mere sham of love, constituted for Manuel a painful awakening from puberty.

He never liked L- ,becausehe saw that he had no principle whatever; that all about him was mere sham.

It is a mere sham, an evasion of some law, passed, I dare say, without any dishonourable intention, to procure colonial labour.

He knocked at the door and inquired the cause of the trouble, hoping to discover that the display of grief was a mere sham.

The Assembly, having accepted theatrical exhibitions when these were sincere and earnest, is obliged to tolerate them when they become mere sham and buffoonery.

He can neither help himself-norother people-andyou need never be surprised to find that his supposed goodness is a mere sham and delusion.

We know that the Conservative Government is a mere sham, and that it largely reduced the strength of the British artillery in 1888-89.

The greater part of our female seminaries and colleges are mere shams.

"The moral indignation which her political opponents exhibited," said a leading jurist, "was unfortunately a mere sham.