FEIGNED in a Sentence
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40 example sentences for FEIGNED, such as:
1. She knew that he only feigned to be asleep, but she said nothing to him.
2. Lady Macbeth decided to feign illness although she was actually healthy.
3. He glanced at Rostov with a feigned smile and waved his hand in greeting.
4. One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness.
5. You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.
2. Lady Macbeth decided to feign illness although she was actually healthy.
3. He glanced at Rostov with a feigned smile and waved his hand in greeting.
4. One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness.
5. You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.
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Meanings and Examples of FEIGNED
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feigned
a. not genuine
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 Then he descended with cautious and slow step, for he dreaded lest an accident similar to that he had so adroitly feigned should happen in reality.
2 Ali, having pointed to the apartments, held up three fingers of his right hand, and then, placing it beneath his head, shut his eyes, and feigned to sleep.
3 The baron might possibly have perceived it, but, attributing it to a caprice, feigned ignorance.
4 I don't recall the words now, but I remember well that through the high-flown phrases there was apparent a genuine feeling, which cannot be feigned.
5 "Ma chere, there is a time for everything," said the countess with feigned severity.
6 He glanced at Rostov with a feigned smile and waved his hand in greeting.
7 So she feigned a mocking laugh and said, "Eurynome, I have changed my mind, and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them."
8 I knew gipsies and fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.
9 Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles.
10 Presently a breeze sprang up; Stubb feigned to cast off from the whale; hoisting his boats, the Frenchman soon increased his distance, while the Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale.
11 She knew that he only feigned to be asleep, but she said nothing to him.
12 As Louisa feigned to rouse herself, and sat up, Sissy retired, so that she stood placidly near the bedside.
13 Besides, the physician might declare the ailment feigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.
14 Milady, with a rapid gesture, opened her robe, tore the cambric that covered her bosom, and red with feigned anger and simulated shame, showed the young man the ineffaceable impression which dishonored that beautiful shoulder.
15 We agreed, without any more consultation, that we would both go, and that Dora was a little Impostor, who feigned to be rather unwell, because she liked to be petted.
Example Sentence:
1 I knew fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.
2 She feigned interest in a magazine article to avoid meeting the man's stare.
3 Lady Macbeth decided to feign illness although she was actually healthy.
4 A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sells it on the black market.
5 The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.
6 One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness.
7 You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.