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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Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..
Make-belief :: Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.
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..
Irony :: Irony (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Feine :: Feine (v. t. & i.) To feign.
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Fictive :: Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
Abram-man :: Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms..
Misfeign :: Misfeign (v. i.) To feign with an evil design.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Act :: Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
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..
Sincerely :: Sincerely (adv.) Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely..
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Feigned :: Feigned (imp. & p. p.) of Feig.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To dissemble; to conceal.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Sham :: Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
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