feigned

Definition of feigned in English English dictionary: Simple past tense and past participle of feign; Pertaining to a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent; {a} pretended, devises, dissembled, false; past of feign; Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false; not genuine; "feigned sympathy; not genuine; "feigned sympathy"; {s} phony, fake; counterfeit; assumed, fictitious
feign: To dissemble; to conceal
Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.
feign: If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true. One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness `Giles phoned this morning,' Mirella said with feigned indifference. = affect. to pretend to have a particular feeling or to be ill, asleep etc (feindre, from fingere )
feign: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
feign: {v} to pretend, devise, invent, make
feign: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache
feign: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
feign: To give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form and relate as if true
feign: {f} fake, pretend; make up, fabricate; imitate
feign: To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness
feign: 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
feign: To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit