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

feign9 feigned12 feigns10

Words that contain FEIGNING

feignings14 feigningly18 unfeigning15 misfeigning18

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.

Similar words containing FEIGN without suffix ing

feign9 feigns10 feigned12 feigner11 feigners12 misfeign14 feignedly17 feignings14 misfeigns15 unfeigned14 feigningly18 misfeigned17 unfeigning15 feignedness16 misfeigning18 unfeignedly19 feignednesses18 unfeignedness18 unfeignednesses20

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