feigning

How To Use feigning In A Sentence

• If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
• “Well, one might say it was, considering the man came into my room while I was surrounded by lovelies,” Tychus said, feigning thoughtfulness. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
• Feigning a serious illness, he arranges for him to have a tame doctor prescribe an ocean voyage to Hawaii as a cure.
• Amnon lay down, and made himself sick -- The Orientals are great adepts in feigning sickness, whenever they have any object to accomplish. let Tamar my sister come and make me a couple of cakes -- To the king Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Duchamp was a Frenchman born in 1887 who managed to skip the first world war by feigning invalidity and resettled himself in New York in 1915.
• It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
• Apparently many of his patients try to take him for a ride, feigning injuries to achieve compensation, while other call-outs are totally unnecessary.
• They are awarded for offences such as grabbing, holding, feigning injury, pushing and turning one's back on an opponent.
• I thank God that I can, with a full and unfeigning heart, utter Amen to this passage. Literary Remains, Volume 1
• Levine found, through a series of interesting tests, such as feigning a blind person trying to find and retrieve a lost letter, that American Coastopia!