Feigned can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| feigned - not genuine; "feigned sympathy" | ||
Verb |
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| feign - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" | ||
| feign - make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" |
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| 1. | adj. | Feigned sympathy. | |
| 2. | adj. | Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. | |
| 3. | adj. | It is a sneaking piece of cowardice for Authors to put feigned names to their works, as if like Bastards of their Brain they were afraid to own them. | |
| 4. | adj. | 'If the name / of Palamedes thou hast chanced to hear, / old Belus' progeny, if ever came / to thee or thine in talk the rumour of his fame, / whom, pure of guilt, on charges false and feigned, / wroth that his sentence should the war prevent, / by perjured witnesses the Greeks arraigned, / and doomed to die, but now his death lament.' | |
| 5. | verb | He feigned indifference to the girl. | |
| 6. | verb | He feigned not to notice the two strangers. | |
| 7. | verb | He feigned illness to get out of working. | |
| 8. | verb | She feigned an illness. | |
| 9. | verb | Tom feigned surprise. | |
| 10. | verb | Tom feigned concern. | |
| 11. | verb | He learned that she feigned her pregnancy. | |
| 12. | verb | Insurance companies have to fight from time to time with fraudsters, who — due to a merely feigned whiplash following a car accident — demand damages for pain and suffering. | |
| 13. | verb | He spake, and heart-sick with a load of care, / suppressed his grief, and feigned a cheerful air. | |
| 14. | verb | They praise the boy, his glowing looks divine, / the words he feigned, the royal gifts he brought, / the robe, the saffron veil with bright acanthus wrought. | |
| 15. | verb | She feigned her illness as an excuse. | |
| 16. | verb | Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. | |
| 17. | verb | His anger wasn't feigned. | |
| 18. | verb | Especially do not feign affection. | |
| 19. | verb | It's futile to feign illness. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| Feigned sympathy. |
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| Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. | |
| It is a sneaking piece of cowardice for Authors to put feigned names to their works, as if like Bastards of their Brain they were afraid to own them. | |
| 'If the name / of Palamedes thou hast chanced to hear, / old Belus' progeny, if ever came / to thee or thine in talk the rumour of his fame, / whom, pure of guilt, on charges false and feigned, / wroth that his sentence should the war prevent, / by perjured witnesses the Greeks arraigned, / and doomed to die, but now his death lament.' | |
| verb | |
| He feigned indifference to the girl. | |
| He feigned not to notice the two strangers. | |
| He feigned illness to get out of working. | |
| She feigned an illness. | |
| Tom feigned surprise. | |
| Tom feigned concern. | |
| He learned that she feigned her pregnancy. | |
| Insurance companies have to fight from time to time with fraudsters, who — due to a merely feigned whiplash following a car accident — demand damages for pain and suffering. | |
| He spake, and heart-sick with a load of care, / suppressed his grief, and feigned a cheerful air. | |
| They praise the boy, his glowing looks divine, / the words he feigned, the royal gifts he brought, / the robe, the saffron veil with bright acanthus wrought. | |
| She feigned her illness as an excuse. | |
| Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. | |
| His anger wasn't feigned. | |
| Especially do not feign affection. | |
| It's futile to feign illness. | |