Sentence examples for outright sham from inspiring English sources
This is a nation of confounding murkiness, where every kind of deception, collusion and outright sham are recurring motifs in the political theater.
Others are outright shams.
Outright shams such as Leadfield also occurred, but most ventures quickly ended after a short series of prospecting mines failed to yield evidence of significant ore (these mines now dot the entire area and are a significant hazard to anyone who enters them).
If there's a mysterious financial model producing miraculous returns, odds are it's a sham — whether it's an outright fraud, as it apparently is in Madoff's case, or nominally legal, as is the case with the Wall Street giants that have fallen this year.
Some schemes are outright fraud.
In a joint statement, Couric, David and "Fed Up" director Stephanie Soechtig said the GMA sham website "borders on outright lying".
As soon as it was published, Sokal fessed up in another journal (Lingua Franca, May 1996), revealing that his article was a sham, describing it as "a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense... structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics".
Many rejected it outright.
("Outright knavery," Lomax complained).
