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had been feigning

  • past perfect progressive
    of feign.
    feign
    verb (used with object)
    to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of.

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Since July, say prosecutors, Williams had been feigning pregnancy and a delivery date that coincided with Evans'.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this time he had been feigning anxiety about the Proserpine, and concealing his real anxiety about the Shannon.

From Foul Play by Charles Reade

She had been certain then, and still was certain that he had been feigning sleep, that he had been listening to the talk carried on between her uncle and Carrington.

From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer

He had been feigning sleep, and he crept after me.

From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman

Then Godfrey really opened his eyes; hitherto he had been feigning to be still in trance, but thought it wisest to say nothing.

From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard