feign
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Origin of feign
Synonyms for feign
Related Words for feign
play, dissimulate, bluff, assume, invent, fake, stonewall, fabricate, devise, imagine, dissemble, simulate, act, forge, affect, imitate, counterfeit, sham, four-flushExamples from the Web for feign
Contemporary Examples of feign
They cannot feign ignorance at the end of a journey that was ugly all along.
Give us a moment to feign excitement...TVLine Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy went trick-or-treating together.
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And you have to possess a certain amount of humility—or at least try to feign it from time to time.
But anyone who can feign a relationship for 40 days can surely do it for one meal.
I could likely feign my way through a short story—a very short story—in Farsi.
Historical Examples of feign
He has no conception of what to do, and his folly is to feign folly.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
At first she tried to feign astonishment and reply that she had heard nothing.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Madame had never seen him so exasperated, and this illustrious nobleman was advised to feign a necessity for visiting his estates.
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, CompleteMadame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
Surely, he thought, no woman could feign the love she had shown for him.
Not the manners, which I could feign, nor the vices, which I could feel.
Confessions Of Con CreganCharles James Lever