Crossword-Solution: SHAMS 5 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Things used to disguise bed pillows 1 answer
Brummagems. 1 answer
Bunco schemes 1 answer
Con activities 1 answer
Deceptive practices 1 answer
Decorative bedding 1 answer
Decorative pillowcases 1 answer
Dishonest imitations 1 answer
False things 1 answer
Fancy pillow covers 1 answer
Genuine they're not 1 answer
Grandma's pillow covers. 1 answer
Ornamental linen covers. 1 answer
Pillow cases 1 answer
Pillow cover-ups 1 answer
Pillow coverings 1 answer
Pillow covers 1 answer
Pillow prettifiers 1 answer
Pillow slips. 1 answer
Pillowcases 1 answer
Plays possum. 1 answer
Spurious imitations 1 answer
They aren't what they appear to be 1 answer
They're not what they seem to be 1 answer
False shows 2 answers
Trickeries 2 answers
Bedding covers 2 answers
Feathered talker 3 answers
White sale items 3 answers
Counterfeits 3 answers
Covers of a sort. 3 answers
Coverlets 3 answers
Humbugs 4 answers
They're not to be believed 5 answers
Impostors 5 answers
Facades 5 answers
Makes believe 6 answers
Feigns 6 answers
Charlatans 7 answers
False fronts 7 answers
Phonies 7 answers
Pretenses 7 answers
Put-ons 7 answers
Hoaxes 10 answers
A BERET COVERS IT 10 answers
Fakes 10 answers
A CONTESTANT ENTERED IN A COMPETITION UNDER FALSE PRETENSES 11 answers
Charades 11 answers
A STRONG FABRIC USED FOR MATTRESS AND PILLOW COVERS 11 answers
Frauds 12 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHAMS (5)

Over the fat pillows were “shams” embroidered in Turkey red, each with a flowering scroll—one with “Gute’ Nacht,” the other with “Guten Morgen.” The dresser was so big that Thea wondered how it had ever been got into the house and up the narrow stairs.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
These pretended governments, which were never submitted to the people, and from participation in which four millions of the loyal people were excluded by Presidential order, should now be treated according to their true character, as shams and impositions, and supplanted by true and legitimate governments, in the formation of which loyal men, black and white, shall participate.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1994
When completed, the new Cotton Exchange will be a stately and beautiful building; massive, substantial, full of architectural graces; no shams or false pretenses or uglinesses about it anywhere.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
The larger view always and through all shams, all wickednesses, discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with SHAMS (3)

Like This If anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say, Like this. If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God’s fragrance" means, lean your head toward him or her. Keep your face there close. Like this. When someone quotes the old poetic imageabout clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen kno…
Jalaluddin Rumi
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, -- determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated…
Henry David Thoreau Walden
She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter of the man friend and nothing else in the world is the central issue in the emancipation of women. The difficulty of him is latent in every other restriction of which women complain. The complete emancipation of women will come with complete emancipation of humanity from jealousy — and no sooner. All other emancipations are shams until a woman may go about as freely with this m…
H. G. Wells The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 120 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).