feigning
present participle offeign
feign
verb[T]
uk/feɪn/us/feɪn/topretendto have aparticularfeeling,problem, etc. :
Youknowhow everyone feignssurprisewhen youtellthem howoldyou are.
Theprosecutionclaimedthat thedefendanthad feigned theinjury.
Sherespondedto hisremarkswith feignedamusement.
Faking & pretending
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- cry
- false
- false modesty
- falsifiable
- falsify
- feign
- massage
- mountebank
- out-bluff
- passsomethingoff assomething
- phoney
- professed
- purport
- quackery
Examplesoffeigning
feigning
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Thus,feigningunderstanding can be seen as a zero-negotiation mechanism.
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The possible contribution offeigningto the pattern of aberrant brain activation also needs to be explored.
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Dancers are undoubtedly amongst the fittest and liveliest of their generation, and they are certainly notfeigningtheir agility on the dance floor.
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It is, moreover, somewhat strange to talk about essential or fixed identities in a performing musician, who after all is an artist concerned withfeigninga changing configuration of identities.
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The patient may respond to such open-ended questions with an explicit "tell me everything/nothing" or with nonverbal cues such as closing her eyes andfeigningfatigue or sleep.
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It is a chilling catalogue of evasion, deceit andfeigningco-operation while in reality pursuing concealment.
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Is this real naivety or are you justfeigningnaivety, in an attempt, as it were, to actively deny reality?
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This would encompassfeigningpoverty in order to obtain money.
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He wasfeigninghis response to the statement.
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The new charges are offeigninginfirmity and of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.
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Main opposition parties serve no practical purpose byfeigningunity in the vain pursuit of political point scoring.
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The third escaped byfeigningdeath.
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The captive, however, afterfeigningresignation, was less tightly held.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Yet also exploring the involuntary aspects of being ignorant, such asfeigningignorance of the past or avoiding the truth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Both sides continued on,feigningnormality while both were aware of the others mistrust.
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- proper consultation
- proper context
- proper diagnosis
- proper diet
- proper disclosure
- proper disposal
- proper disposition
- proper documentation
- proper drainage
- proper equipment
- proper evaluation
- proper exercise
- proper form
- proper forum
- proper fraction
- proper-fraction
- proper function
- proper guidance
- proper hygiene
- proper identification
- proper implementation
- proper incentive
- proper interpretation
- proper location
- properly