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feigned

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feigned  (fnd)
adj.
1. Not real; pretended: a feigned modesty.
2. Made-up; fictitious.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.feigned - not genuine; "feigned sympathy"
insincere - lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
feigned
adjective pretended, affected, assumed, false, artificial, fake, imitation, simulated, sham, pseudo (informal) fabricated, counterfeit, spurious, ersatz, insincere
Translations
feigned [feɪnd] adj → fingido
feigned [feɪnd] feign adj → vorgetäuscht


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The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could.
Fables by Aesop View in context
In composing the Odyssey he did not include all the adventures of Odysseus--such as his wound on Parnassus, or his feigned madness at the mustering of the host--incidents between which there was no necessary or probable connection: but he made the Odyssey, and likewise the Iliad, to centre round an action that in our sense of the word is one.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
Its attitude is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the "Theogony": `We can tell many a feigned tale to look like truth, but we can, when we will, utter the truth' ("Theogony"
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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