feign
IPA: fˈeɪn
verb
- To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
- To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
- To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
- To hide or conceal.
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Examples of "feign" in Sentences
- Never feign honesty to fool someone.
- It is impossible to feign his identity.
- The cat has the ability to feign death.
- I'd rather feign indifference to people.
- There is the attempt to feign objectivity.
- Afterward Ray feigned the loss of his sight.
- He showed a feigned ignorance to advertisement.
- I was feigning ignorance for the sake of satire.
- However, the slave feigns submission and escapes.
- Another kind of the tactics was a feigned retreat.
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