How To Use Feigning In A Sentence
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If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
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“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
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Feigning a serious illness, he arranges for him to have a tame doctor prescribe an ocean voyage to Hawaii as a cure.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Apparently many of his patients try to take him for a ride, feigning injuries to achieve compensation, while other call-outs are totally unnecessary.
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They are awarded for offences such as grabbing, holding, feigning injury, pushing and turning one's back on an opponent.
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I thank God that I can, with a full and unfeigning heart, utter Amen to this passage.
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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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!
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He was accused of feigning injury.
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Ad placitum, are the characters real before mentioned, and words: although some have been willing by curious inquiry, or rather by apt feigning, to have derived imposition of names from reason and intendment; a speculation elegant, and, by reason it searcheth into antiquity, reverent, but sparingly mixed with truth, and of small fruit.
The Advancement of Learning
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The semiochemical is even strong enough to awaken lab sharks from tonic immobility, an induced, ‘death-feigning’ state during which researchers can go so far as to perform surgery without arousing the animal.
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A shadow was on the threshold, and before I had recalled my listless fancy, in tripped Frances Sutherland, herself, feigning not to see me.
Lords of the North
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You know, I think I was a little burned out or kind of feigning being jaded and too cool for high school.
CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2005
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The public is in no mood to watch multimillionaires rolling on the ground feigning injury.
Times, Sunday Times
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An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
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His character, a wily bank robber, is feigning a stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lodovico, with Brabanzio's brother Graziano, hears the wounded men: Iago, feigning to help, stabs Roderigo, then pretends horror on finding him dead.
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As ConWebWatch previously reported, a Dec. 5, 2008, article by Klein mined a blog post by former Weatherman member Jeff Jones to baselessly present speculation that Obama "is 'feigning' a centrist position on some issues so he can ultimately push through a radical agenda" as indisputable fact.
Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily Red-Baits Obama
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An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
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Darcy briefly toyed with the idea of feigning unconsciousness.
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When was the last time we heard a manager berate one of his own players on TV for feigning injury, diving, time-wasting or abusing the referee?
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Having assets frozen ahead of court appearances counters a common fraudster's tactic, which is to draw out proceedings by changing lawyers and feigning illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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His unfeigning, untroubled nature would have rejoiced the heart of sham-hating Emerson.
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock
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The fact that you are in hospital frees you from the guilt and fear that your bosses might think that you're feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four medical experts had examined him and agreed that it was'out of the question' that he was feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The singer is admitting to the listener that he is feigning the innocence of a lamb in order to get close to Little Red.
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He found them in bed, and to all appearance asleep, they having slipped into bed without removing their "toggery," and feigning sleep.
Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
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But Siegfried was wise, and stowed away his _Tarnkappe_ with care; then he went back where the women sat, and said feigningly to Gunther,
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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To them, therefore, I had to feign feigning: I had to feign, that is, that I was feigning to keep their confidence, but that in reality that I was betraying it; while to Mr. Chiffinch I had to disclose these precious secrets not as true but as false, and conjecture with him what was the truth.
Oddsfish!
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Struggled into work and spent the entire day trying not to fall asleep at my desk (I managed to get some shut-eye in the loos though - feigning a dicky tummy and doing my best to look pale, which wasn't too difficult).
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She plays him for a fool, often feigning helplessness just to see what lengths he will go to in order to prove his love for her.
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Four medical experts had examined him and agreed that it was'out of the question' that he was feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact that you are in hospital frees you from the guilt and fear that your bosses might think that you're feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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... photographs from Camp Breadbasket showed British soldiers standing on Iraqis enmeshed in netting, forcing them to simulate oral and anal sex, feigning to punch them in the head and parading them around on forklift trucks.
I Don't Often ...
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You can do that,’ Graham said, feigning a grim visage and not entirely joking.
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The hill where they were feigning to build their wooden palisade commanded a great view of the surrounding countryside.
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Gay GOP leader BLASTS Bush for "feigning" outrage ...
10/15/2004
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I was toying with the idea of feigning ADS in the comment threads.
Althouse coffeehouse.
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Ad placitum, are the characters real before mentioned, and words: although some have been willing by curious inquiry, or rather by apt feigning, to have derived imposition of names from reason and intendment; a speculation elegant, and, by reason it searcheth into antiquity, reverent, but sparingly mixed with truth, and of small fruit.
The Advancement of Learning
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He couldn't see me now as I moved carefully away from the entrance, feigning interest in a secretaire bookcase parked against the wall.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery?
John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
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With knees bent in, they bob back and forth; some of the men almost look like they're feigning broken limbs.
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They were widely criticized for feigning injuries to stop the clock.
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Margot essayed one Scotch air after another, and was instructed in the proper pronunciation of the words; feigning, it is to be feared, an extra amount of incapacity to pronounce the soft "ch," for the sake of giving her patient a better opportunity of displaying his superior adroitness.
Big Game A Story for Girls
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In the latest incident, another bunch of amigos were detained after feigning illness outside the athlete's village and demanding medical attention as a ruse to slip through security at the facility.
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‘You need to tell me more about yourself, mister,’ I said, feigning grave seriousness.
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The utter tedium of the actual games didn't stop everyone from feigning excitement over them.
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An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
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Stephanie said she didn't mind and gazed out of the window, feigning disinterest.
CHAMELEON
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Most people are familiar with the phenomenon of "death-feigning," commonly seen in coleopterous insects, and in many spiders.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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“Oh, Dr. Foster!” the voice on the line spluttered, feigning shock.
A Covert Affair
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The one who had been sitting on the doorstep feigning indifference while glancing sideways at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is like telling the story of a dream by feigning sleep.
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Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery?
John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
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Stephanie said she didn't mind and gazed out of the window, feigning disinterest.
CHAMELEON
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He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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Having assets frozen ahead of court appearances counters a common fraudster's tactic, which is to draw out proceedings by changing lawyers and feigning illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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When was the last time we heard a manager berate one of his own players on TV for feigning injury, diving, time-wasting or abusing the referee?
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Feigning a headache, I went upstairs to my room.
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The one who had been sitting on the doorstep feigning indifference while glancing sideways at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anthony and Maxwell are clamouring for her attention, and now the other girls think she's feigning her injury.
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In no manner of feigning or flattering, but in soothfastness of good love and clean charity.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
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Are they feigning a lack of awareness?
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The criminal tried to grasp at a straw by feigning mental disorder.
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It was a sight of joy to see them return at night, axe on shoulder, feigning to march like soldiers, a choragus with a loud voice singing out,
Vailima Letters
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The fact that you are in hospital frees you from the guilt and fear that your bosses might think that you're feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Finn never rose to the bait, either feigning an inability to understand the question or flat-batting inquiries with a quizzical shrug and a nondescript answer.
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In rugby union, if a player's thought to be feigning injury, referees have the discretion to order them from the field.
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He boasts of dodging military service by feigning illness.
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Feigning surprise, the British and French issued an ultimatum to both sides to cease fire.
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There was not a trace of feigning good humour.
The Sun
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Gay GOP leader BLASTS Bush for "feigning" outrage over Mary Cheney, while gay-baiting to help his re-election by on
10/15/2004
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So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph.
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