feigned

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Feigned ignorance was merely part of her repertoire.

From Time • Nov. 29, 2

Feigned compliance is the term used by Lucian Pye, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to describe such self-protective make-believe and the obedience it spawns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Feigned characters are also found, as Scott's mute in "The Talisman"; in Moliere's "Le Médecin malgré Lui"; Jonson's "Epicoene"; and John Poole's "Deaf as a Post".

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Best, Harry

His next play, Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence, an adaptation in prose of the duke of Newcastle’s translation of Moli�re’s L’�tourdi, was produced at the Duke’s theatre, without the author’s name, in 1667.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

Feigned sickness and "playing the doctor," imitating with ludicrous exactness the pomp and solemnity of the real man of pills and powders, and the misery of the patient, are the diversions of very young children.

From Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories by Griffis, William Elliot