Definition of feign

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Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

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Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.
Fictitious :: Fictitious (a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame..
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Sham :: Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
Schesis :: Schesis (n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.
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..
Feint :: Feint (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Simulation :: Simulation (n.) The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true..
Affect :: Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance..
Fictive :: Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Malinger :: Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
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..
Irony :: Irony (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
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..
Simulator :: Simulator (n.) One who simulates, or feigns..
Feigning :: Feigning (a.) That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..
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