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feigned
(fānd)adj.
1. Not real; pretended:a feigned modesty.
2. Made-up; fictitious.
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feigned
(feɪnd)adj
(of a gesture, statement or emotion) not real
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feigned
(feɪnd)adj.
1. pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.
2. assumed; fictitious.
[1325–75]
feign•ed•ly (ˈfeɪ nɪd li)adv.
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Adj. | 1. | feigned - not genuine; "feigned sympathy" insincere - lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" |
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feigned
adjectivepretended,affected,assumed,false,artificial,fake,imitation,simulated,sham,pseudo(informal),fabricated,counterfeit,spurious,ersatz,insincereHe answered me with feigned indifference.
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feigned
adjectiveNot genuine or sincere:
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Translations
تَظاهُري، مُتَصَنَّع
předstíraný
uppgerîur, tilgerîar-
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(fein) verb to pretend to feel.He feigned illness. voorgee, maak, veins, huigel, uitdink, bedink, versin, opdis يَدَّعي، يَتَظاهَر أنَّه يَشْعُر симулирам fingir předstíratheucheln foregive; simulereπροσποιούμαι,προφασίζομαιfingir teesklema تظاهر ردن teeskennelläfaire semblant לְהַעֲמִיד פָּנִים बहाना करना pretvarati se színlel berpura-pura gera sér upp, láta líta út fyrirfingere,simulare ~のふりをする ...인 체하다 apsimesti izlikties; simulēt pura-puraveinzenlate som om,simulere,hyklesymulować تظاهر كولfingir a simulaпритворяться predstierať hliniti simulirati låtsa[s], simulera แสร้งทำ numara/yalandan yapmak 假裝 удавати جھوٹا دکھاوا کرنا giả vờ假装
feigned adjective pretended.feigned happiness. geveinsde, nagemaakte تَظاهُري، مُتَصَنَّع неискрен fingido předstíranýgeheuchelt simuleretπροσποιητόςfingido teeseldud ساختگی teeskenneltysimuléמדומה कल्पित, जाली, झूठा hinjen, lažan tettetett pura-pura uppgerður, tilgerðar-finto,simulato 見せかけの 가장한 apsimestinis simulēts berpura-purageveinsdpåtatt,fingertsymulowany نقلیfingido prefăcutпритворный predstieraný hlinjen simuliran låtsad ซึ่งเสแสร้งsahte,yapmacık 假裝的 удаваний ڈھونگ giả vờ假装的
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The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, andfeigned the appearance of death as much as he could.
In composing the Odyssey he did not include all the adventures of Odysseus--such as his wound on Parnassus, or hisfeigned madness at the mustering of the host--incidents between which there was no necessary or probable connection: but he made the Odyssey, and likewise the Iliad, to centre round an action that in our sense of the word is one.
Its attitude is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the "Theogony": `We can tell many afeigned tale to look like truth, but we can, when we will, utter the truth' ("Theogony"
Besides, the physician might declare the ailmentfeigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.
"I will tell it," cried Milady, with afeigned exultation, "on the day when I shall have suffered sufficiently for my faith."
Crooks and M'Lellan, therefore, turned back withfeigned alacrity, and, landing, had an interview with the Sioux.
Crooks suddenly broke up hisfeigned trading establishment, embarked his men and effects, and, after giving the astonished rear-guard of savages a galling and indignant message to take to their countrymen, pushed down the river with all speed, sparing neither oar nor paddle, day nor night, until fairly beyond the swoop of these river hawks.
In fact, so well had Jerryfeigned that he had forgotten it was all a game, and his interest was very real as he sniffed and snorted joyously in the bottom of the hole he had dug.
"Ma chere, there is a time for everything," said the countess withfeigned severity.
Hefeigned, therefore, some excuse of business for his departure, and promised to return soon again; and took leave of his brother with so well-dissembled content, that, as the captain played his part to the same perfection, Allworthy remained well satisfied with the truth of the reconciliation.
Going into the Market Place he accosted in afeigned voice a maiden, the orphan daughter of a noble Polygon, whose affection in former days he had sought in vain; and by a series of deceptions -- aided, on the one side, by a string of lucky accidents too long to relate, and on the other, by an almost inconceivable fatuity and neglect of ordinary precautions on the part of the relations of the bride -- he succeeded in consummating the marriage.
FEIGNED INSANITY He also sought to know why the offender hadfeigned insanity upon appearing in court, subjecting the court to rigorous medical research.The witnesses' testimonies and evidence presented in court found Doyo guilty of defilement.
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