Thesaurus / feigned
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The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANLucy Warrender, ever ready for mischief, feigned an intense interest in racing matters, but failed to draw Lord Hetton.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSI could not make out what it was, for the wind-was rustling the corn-shocks, but I arose and feigned to listen.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDGarnache opened his eyes and stared a second dully at the disturber of his feigned slumbers.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINISome chiefs, however, feigned to offer their submission, and all was apparently quiet for a time.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThe feigned hero inflames the true; and the dead virtue animates the living.
THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, VOLUME 4 (OF 18)JOHN DRYDENThis effusion written and posted, the youth feigned unusual calmness all day, so no one would suspect his designs.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEAfter examining him for some minutes, David discovered that this calmness of Frederick was feigned.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEMademoiselle listened to him, feigned to be satisfied with his explanation, in fact, met deceit with deceit.
THE LIGHT THAT LURESPERCY BREBNERAs soon as he crossed the border he feigned to be a refugee, but was taken as a spy and cast into prison.
THE STORY OF MOSCOWWIRT GERRAREWORDS RELATED TO FEIGNED
- affected
- arty
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overambitious
- overblown
- pompous
- puffed up
- put on
- rhetorical
- showy
- specious
- splashy
- stilted
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- turgid
- utopian
- vainglorious
- Hollywood
- affected
- assumed
- bent
- bogus
- brummagem
- copied
- crock
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- ersatz
- fake
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fictitious
- fishy
- forged
- framed
- fraudulent
- imitation
- misleading
- mock
- not genuine
- not kosher
- phony
- pirate
- plant
- pretended
- pretentious
- pseudo
- put on
- queer
- sham
- snide
- soft-shell
- spurious
- supposititious
- two-faced
- won't fly
- wrong
- Hollywood
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- copied
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- fictitious
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- forged
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- imitation
- misleading
- mock
- not genuine
- not kosher
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- pirate
- plant
- pretended
- pretentious
- pseudo
- put on
- queer
- sham
- snide
- soft-shell
- spurious
- suppositious
- two-faced
- won't fly
- wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- affected
- anomalous
- assumed
- bizarre
- concocted
- contrary
- contrived
- ersatz
- extraordinary
- fabricated
- factitious
- false
- feigned
- forced
- freakish
- freaky
- imitation
- incredible
- insincere
- irregular
- labored
- made-up
- make believe
- odd
- outlandish
- outrageous
- perverse
- perverted
- phony
- preposterous
- pseudo
- put on
- queer
- staged
- stiff
- stilted
- strained
- strange
- studied
- supernatural
- synthetic
- theatrical
- unaccountable
- uncanny
- unconforming
- unorthodox
- unusual
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