Thesaurus / feign
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The tales of my regifting are so legendary that it’s become a tradition for my children, now in their 20s, to feign outrage as they recall how old they were when they discovered my holiday ruse.
HOW TO BEAT INFLATION AND EMPTY SHELVES THIS HOLIDAY SHOPPING SEASONMICHELLE SINGLETARYNOVEMBER 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA centrist stance I'll feign, The conclusion is foregone I'll go and side with Mitch McConnell And I'll con the folks in Maine.
STYLE INVITATIONAL WEEK 1463: FORK OVER SOME (NEW) SPOONERISMSPAT MYERSNOVEMBER 18, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs hundreds flooded into the colony taking up lands all along the James River Valley, he feigned friendship with the newcomers, biding his time for the right moment to put his plan into action.
HOW A POWHATAN TRIBAL CHIEF BECAME ONE OF COLONIAL AMERICA’S GREATEST MILITARY LEADERSJAMES HORNNOVEMBER 17, 2021TIMEPeople who have psychologically mediated physical symptoms always fear being accused of feigning illness.
WHY THESE CHILDREN FELL INTO ENDLESS SLEEP - ISSUE 107: THE EDGESUZANNE O’SULLIVANSEPTEMBER 22, 2021NAUTILUSThe channel’s most popular video to date, an eight-minute clip titled “Oregon Long Run” that currently has over 300,000 views, begins with Teare feigning indignation at the unorthodox way his fellow speedster Evert Silva eats Kit Kats.
THESE GEN Z RUNNERS WANT TO REINVENT RUNNING MEDIAMMIRHASHEMSEPTEMBER 8, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEWe each have on a disposable mask, which was still a newish kind of thing in March 2020, and we are lying on the floor, hugging, feigning panic.
IN THIS TOUGH YEAR AS A PARENT, I FOUND A STORY OF HOPEHOLLY MCGHEEMAY 31, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSkilled physicians feign indifference to their calling that they may smack of the kennel and the hunting-field.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANShe answered coldly that she could not feign; indifferent she was to everything on earth, indifferent she always should be.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEKnoblock's sincere indignation wins, and the secretary backs away from the bedroom as I plunge under the covers and feign sleep.
MY WONDERFUL VISITCHARLIE CHAPLINSomething prompted Jack to lie still and feign sleep, while he kept his gaze on the man, who was looking fixedly at him.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLISWORDS RELATED TO FEIGN
- act
- affect
- allege
- assume
- be deceitful
- be hypocritical
- beguile
- bluff
- cheat
- claim
- claim falsely
- counterfeit
- cozen
- deceive
- delude
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- dupe
- fake out
- feign
- fish
- fool
- fudge
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jazz
- jive
- lay claim
- let on
- make out
- malinger
- masquerade
- mislead
- pass off
- pass oneself off as
- profess
- purport
- put on
- put up a front
- sham
- shuck and jive
- simulate
- stonewall
- sucker
- whitewash
- acknowledge
- act as if
- admit
- affirm
- allege
- announce
- asseverate
- aver
- avouch
- avow
- blow hot air
- certify
- claim
- come out
- confess
- confirm
- constate
- croon
- cross heart
- depose
- dissemble
- fake
- feign
- get off chest
- get on soapbox
- maintain
- make out
- open up
- own
- own up
- predicate
- pretend
- proclaim
- purport
- say so
- sing
- soapbox
- spiel
- spout
- state
- stump
- swear on bible
- swear up and down
- talk big
- vouch
- act
- act like
- affect
- ape
- assume
- bluff
- borrow
- cheat
- concoct
- copy
- counterfeit
- crib
- deceive
- disguise
- dissemble
- do
- do a take-off
- do like
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- fabricate
- fake
- favor
- feature
- feign
- fence
- gloss over
- invent
- knock off
- lie
- lift
- make believe
- mimic
- mirror
- misrepresent
- phony
- pirate
- play
- playact
- pose
- prevaricate
- put on
- put on an act
- replicate
- reproduce
- resemble
- steal
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