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feigned (f

nd)

adj.

1. Not real; pretended: a feigned modesty.

2. Made-up; fictitious.

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Adj.

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 He answered me with feigned indifference.

Translations

feigned [feɪnd] ADJ → fingido

feigned

adj → vorgeblich attr; illness also → simuliert; interest, sympathy etc also → vorgetäuscht, geheuchelt

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