Definition of feign

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Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

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Coyness :: Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
Sincerely :: Sincerely (adv.) Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely..
Feint :: Feint (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Unfeigned :: Unfeigned (a.) Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man..
Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..
Malinger :: Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
Dissimulation :: Dissimulation (n.) The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
Sham :: Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
Act :: Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
Feine :: Feine (v. t. & i.) To feign.
Soldiering :: Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2..
Make-belief :: Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.
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..
Incognito :: Incognito (a.) The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
Hypocrite :: Hypocrite (n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety..
Pretence :: Pretence (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death..
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