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Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion..

Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Simulator :: Simulator (n.) One who simulates, or feigns..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

Fictive :: Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..

Feyne :: Feyne (v. t.) To feign.

Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..

Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

Unfeigned :: Unfeigned (a.) Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man..

Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..

Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

Malinger :: Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.

Soldiering :: Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2..

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..

Affect :: Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance..

Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.

Irony :: Irony (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

Make-believe :: Make-believe (a.) Feigned; insincere.

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