feign
verb (used with object)
to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of.
had been feigning
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past perfect progressiveof feign.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
He had been feigning sleep, and he crept after me.
From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
After an hour of cold waiting John crept out, grunting and limping, for he had been feigning lameness, looked quickly round, and seeing no one, mounted nimbly the stairs to the deck.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
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