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Princeton's WordNet

  1. feignedadjective

    not genuine

    "feigned sympathy"

Wiktionary

  1. feignedadjective

    Pertaining to a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.

    1841 "I have passed my word," said Jowl with feigned reluctance, "and I'll keep it. When does this match come off? I wish it was over. -- To-night?" Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, Chapter 9.

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  1. feigned

    Feigned refers to something simulated or pretended; insincere. It generally means to give a false appearance or impression, often with the aim to deceive or trick.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Feigned

    of Feign

  2. Feignedadjective

    not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of feigned in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of feigned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of feigned in a Sentence

  1. Rooma Mehra:

    People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions

  2. Riek Machar:

    The massacres against Nuer in Juba, South Sudan triggered the present civil war, which Kiir feigned as a coup against the state. Our people and the whole world know there was no coup. It all started as a political dispute within the SPLM Governance.

  3. Assistant District Attorney Melissa Woodward:

    This was by all accounts a double murder with a pitiful feigned suicide attempt by the defendant.

  4. Joseph Brodsky:

    The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

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