Feigning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FEIGNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury)
• invent (a story or excuse).
NOUN:
• the act of feigning
• pretending with intention to deceive
• the act of giving a false appearance
ADJECTIVE:
• That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pretend

Words related to FEIGNING

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How to use FEIGNING in a sentence

• But feigning great admiration, she told everybody how dexterous Antony was, and invited them next day to come and see him again.
• So I put off the evil hour, by feigning to myself that it was necessary to make a careful scrutiny of the beard, and thus wasted at least ten minutes.
• The following morning Major Nikolai discovered him behind the guardhouse, himself feigning intoxication.
• There, a fortnight later, Shergold received from his solicitor a communication which put an end to his feigning of repose and hopefulness.
• His grief and shame are real, and there is no element of feigning in them.
• All that was needed was a telephone, and Romeo would have understood that Juliet was only feigning death for the sake of life with him.
• When slaves, the negroes were glad to find any excuse for deserting their labor, and they were incessantly feigning sickness.
• The feigning of madness to escape death occurs, as well as in the better-known Hamlet story.
• For this stubborn-hearted maiden never doubted that the crafty old man was feigning generosity in order to seize an opening to work his lust.
• For he had to go on digging dots, feigning wild excitement when his heart was cold within him.
• He lay and stared from out his bandages, feigning more stupor than he felt in his passionate craving to keep off all discussion and inquiry.
• This great artist, devoted to his art, practised the feigning of all the emotions of the human soul, just as he accustomed himself to wearing all sorts of costumes.
• For poesie Is but feigning, feigning is to lie, And women practice lying more than men.
• The medical officer was impressed with the fact that the patient was feigning insanity.
• Fervacques, one of the plotters, had stopped in Paris, feigning illness.
• Feigning to understand that from her revelations she derived a heretical confidence in her eternal salvation, the examiner put to her an old question in a new form.
• They toiled up the winding stairs together and stood a moment on the balcony, feigning a light-heartedness that neither of them felt.
• And I shall also recite the various excellent acts of men and thus conceal myself, O son of Kunti, by feigning disguise.
• The herdsman meets Ircano in a melancholy mood, who when questioned endeavours to hide the nature of his grief by feigning that he has lost his flock in the storm.
• Monjaraz never went upon any expedition or engagement along with us, always feigning to be sick, though he omitted no opportunity to boast of his courage.
• And feigning sleep he listened, determined to hear the worst that could be said of him.
• Only by feigning death did they escape the fate of Stephen.
• In his heart he did not accuse the latter of feigning her illness, but he wished she would get well faster, so that Nellie need not feel obliged to visit her.
• They let him talk on, feigning to listen, but in reality noting scarce a word he said.
• This prince was continually using cunning strategy against his brethren, while feigning affection for them.
• Melchior found him in bed, feigning illness, and surrounded by the beds of his seven concubines.
• Amalie cried a little during the ceremony, and more as she followed her husband out of the church, but the heathen custom of feigning sorrow on such an occasion is dying out.
• Soon, however, the short and feeble cry of the babe was heard, when the knight sprang forward, feigning great astonishment at the discovery.
• Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer.
• Expressing emotion with reference to bystanders, is separated by a very thin line from feigning emotion.
• Thereafter Nadan took the first letter, feigning to have found it in my chamber, and brought it to king Esarhaddon.

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