feigned in English
her eyes widened with feigned shock
Use "feigned" in a sentence
1. I saw that her reluctance to be taken had been feigned, or part-feigned.
2. He feigned death to escape capture.
3. Hamlet feigned himself unable to recognize Polonius.
4. Hamlet feigned that he couldn't recognize Polonius.
5. I felt no love, nor feigned any. "
6. Houellebecq's disgust and horror is not feigned.
7. Mrs Bay said with feigned humility.
8. A guilty man would have feigned disgust?
9. He feigned an excuse for his absence.
10. She feigned sleep, lying rigid in bed.
11. He accepted the invitation with feigned enthusiasm.
12. He feigned a teasing laugh, a clear conscience.
13. She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement.
14. He feigned disappointment. Secretly, he was mightily relieved.
15. He feigned indifference to criticism of his work.
16. "Giles phoned this morning," Mirella said with feigned indifference.
17. 10 He feigned disappointment. Secretly, he was mightily relieved.
18. Some prisoners feigned madness so that they would be released.
19. He feigned surprise when I went up and said hello.
20. Feigned: an Assumed name; an assumed air of humility.
21. 'A present for me?' she asked with feigned surprise.
22. She feigned illness so that she wouldn't have to go to school.
23. Sally spun round, a feigned look of surprise on her face.
24. Assumed definition is - not true or real : deliberately pretended or feigned : false, fictitious
25. The silence I feigned does not mean you are not in my thoughts.
26. Synonyms for Counterfeited include faked, forged, copied, feigned, imitated, shammed, simulated, acted, affected and assumed
27. Synonyms for Contrived include artificial, forced, strained, unnatural, laboured, affected, elaborate, false, feigned and overdone
28. Synonyms for Assumed include fake, false, pretended, affected, bogus, feigned, sham, spurious, counterfeit and fictitious
29. Toni turned her gaze back to the fireplace to grasp a newly feigned interest in the bright flames.
30. The baron might possibly have perceived it, but attributing it to a caprice, feigned ignorance.
31. Rubbing the sweat from my brow, I ask a few questions and smile with feigned nonchalance.
32. She said good-bye with feigned indifference. What matter could it make? Still, the coach seemed lorn.
33. Bewegte Affected {adj} [feigned] erheuchelt Affected {adj} [negatively] in Mitleidenschaft gezogen adversely Affected beschwertlaw Affected by sb./sth
34. At least the folks who roast all those chickens know it for what it is-a tortured posturing, a feigned desperation.
35. Assumed definition, adopted in order to deceive; fictitious; pretended; feigned: an Assumed name; an Assumed air of humility
36. Assumed definition, adopted in order to deceive; fictitious; pretended; feigned: an Assumed name; an Assumed air of humility
37. All the way down we listened with feigned interest to our man's proud record of clock-beating on other hills.
38. Herodotus reported that the Spartans used the feigned-retreat tactic at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) to defeat a force of Persian Immortals.
39. For the cynic will always say that the scientists of the past simply feigned their belief in order to escape persecution.
40. I pushed against the door, feigned mild surprise at the assistance shown me by some one apparently on his way in.
41. Maitland claimed that Chastelard's ardour was feigned, and that he was part of a Huguenot plot to discredit Mary by tarnishing her reputation.
42. Slim turbaned Indians blew through long pipes of reed or brass and charmed-or feigned to charm-great hooded snakes and horrible horned adders.
43. That absolutely no one other than Moses himself could have written such a moving document, that simply nobody could have feigned all that feeling.
44. 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.
45. Assumed adjective false, affected, made-up, pretended, fake, imitation, bogus, simulated, sham, counterfeit, feigned, spurious, fictitious, make-believe, pseudonymous, phoney or phony (informal) The articles were published under an Assumed name
46. Says Eric (with a fair amount of feigned Affrontery) about that prospect, "I'm not about to tell you what happens! Why would anyone do that? I wouldn't want to know what happens!"
47. The Barmecide, however, pretended to fill their glasses so often, that my brother feigned that the wine had gone into his head, and struck the Barmecide such a blow on the head, that he fell to the ground
48. Ameliorated overdone politeness, polite to a fault, feigned politeness successio capacity to resist pressure limewater parcelirati harmful or evil kanta za zalijevanje Thrust bearing chatka multidimensional scaling (MDS) deka afterburner deter koulukoti vinit Banqueters absoluto market participant limier tempori parendum parallel access
49. Furthermore, with the reconstruction of the facts, they had feigned a much more unforgiving Bloodthirstiness than really was true, to such an extreme that it was necessary to use public funds to repair the main door of Placida Linero’s house, which was all chipped with knife thrusts
50. Adumbrate (v.) 1580s, "to outline, to sketch," from Latin adumbratus "sketched, shadowed in outline," also "feigned, unreal, sham, fictitious," past participle of adumbrare "cast a shadow over;" in painting, "to represent (a thing) in outline," from ad "to" (see ad-) + umbrare "to cast in shadow," from PIE root *andho-"blind; dark" (see umbrage).Meaning "to overshadow" is from 1660s in English.