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Posing as an IT staffer to get access to the corrupt police commissioner who investigated his father’s case, Assane feigns offense when his credentials are questioned.
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I bit my lip and feigned a smile, donned my heavy jacket, and re-strategized the entire week.
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She immediately descended to her room, and feigning sickness, threw herself upon her couch.
SANTAL FOLK TALESA. CAMPBELL
But then she fell back, like a broom on its handle, and stared at me, feigning anger.
LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMORE
Taylor slipped off the rock and started toward Bud, feigning resentment.
THE RANCHMANCHARLES ALDEN SELTZER
He, accordingly, at times amused himself by feigning to be shot dead, suddenly dropping down beside one of his culverins.
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He looked at her so smilingly, feigning joy in his countenance when he stood on the threshold of death.
No reason can be imagined for her feigning a possession which has pained her in a thousand ways.
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We know that you are feigning death, and would thus deceive the emperor.
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Mathilde, feigning sleep, placed her head on Dorn's shoulder.
ERIK DORNBEN HECHT
WORDS RELATED TO FEIGNING
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- assuming
- characterization
- depiction
- dramatics
- enacting
- enactment
- feigning
- hamming
- histrionics
- imitating
- imitation
- impersonation
- improvisation
- mime
- mimicry
- pantomime
- performance
- playing
- portrayal
- portraying
- posing
- posturing
- pretending
- pretense
- putting
- rendition
- seeming
- showing off
- stagecraft
- stooging
- theatre
- theatricals
- canard
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- feigning
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- half truth
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- misstatement
- perjury
- pretense
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- tall tale
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- Pecksniffian
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.