Our so-called democracy is a complete sham and an insult to the electorate.

He also criticised the second round as a "complete sham".

A complete sham and waste of taxpayers money.

But his attack proved later to be a complete sham.

Quite often a clap-o-meter is a complete sham, having no real sound measuring equipment at all.

But then, I suppose it's a total fabrication, a complete sham, isn't it?

The American election appears to be a complete sham.

The election was surely not free and fair in the sense that we would expect, but neither was it a complete sham.

Are increased capital requirements not a complete sham?

The excuse that the Lisbon Treaty prevents them doing this is a complete sham.