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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.

Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..

Feigning :: Feigning (a.) That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion..

Abram-man :: Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms..

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..

Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

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

Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..

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

Dummerer :: Dummerer (n.) One who feigns dumbness.

Soldiering :: Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2..

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To dissemble; to conceal.

Irony :: Irony (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

Misfeign :: Misfeign (v. i.) To feign with an evil design.

Dummy :: Dummy (a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch..

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

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

Fiction :: Fiction (n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality..

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

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