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Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Pretence :: Pretence (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death..

Coyness :: Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

Fictive :: Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.

Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.

Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Malinger :: Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.

Sincerely :: Sincerely (adv.) Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely..

Feigning :: Feigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feig.

Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..

False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.

Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.

Hypocrisy :: Hypocrisy (n.) The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness..

Feine :: Feine (v. t. & i.) To feign.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

Open :: Open (a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc..

Incognito :: Incognito (a.) The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.

Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..

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