Definition of feign

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Feign (v. t.) To dissemble; to conceal.

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Fictive :: Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Make-belief :: Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.
Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..
Simulator :: Simulator (n.) One who simulates, or feigns..
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..
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
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..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
Malinger :: Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Coyness :: Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
Affect :: Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance..
Open :: Open (a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc..
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..
Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Hypocrisy :: Hypocrisy (n.) The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness..
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