Synonyms for feign
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : feyn |
| Phonetic Transcription : feɪn |
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Définition of feign
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French feign-, present participle stem of feindre "pretend, represent, imitate, shirk" (12c.), from Latin fingere "to touch, handle; devise; fabricate, alter, change" (see fiction). Related: Feigned; feigning.
- verb pretend
- He has no conception of what to do, and his folly is to feign folly.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- At first she tried to feign astonishment and reply that she had heard nothing.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- Madame had never seen him so exasperated, and this illustrious nobleman was advised to feign a necessity for visiting his estates.
- Extract from : « The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete » by Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
- Surely, he thought, no woman could feign the love she had shown for him.
- Extract from : « A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties » by Charles Major
- Not the manners, which I could feign, nor the vices, which I could feel.
- Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
- I had no need to feign an interest in her, for I felt the most tender concern.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- To sit quiet and feign indifference required all his self-control.
- Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
- The girls said, "I ought to feign sickness, to get a little rest."
- Extract from : « The Autobiography of Madame Guyon » by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
- Hearing of the stout aunt, Pepi laughed and then began to feign horror.
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- Was there stealing into her heart a secret that taught her to feign?
- Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
Antonyms for feign
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