How To Use Feigning In A Sentence
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If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
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He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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Stephanie said she didn't mind and gazed out of the window, feigning disinterest.
CHAMELEON
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Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery?
John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
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This is like telling the story of a dream by feigning sleep.
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The one who had been sitting on the doorstep feigning indifference while glancing sideways at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Oh, Dr. Foster!” the voice on the line spluttered, feigning shock.
A Covert Affair
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Most people are familiar with the phenomenon of "death-feigning," commonly seen in coleopterous insects, and in many spiders.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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Stephanie said she didn't mind and gazed out of the window, feigning disinterest.
CHAMELEON
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I was toying with the idea of feigning ADS in the comment threads.
Althouse coffeehouse.
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The utter tedium of the actual games didn't stop everyone from feigning excitement over them.
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‘You need to tell me more about yourself, mister,’ I said, feigning grave seriousness.
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In the latest incident, another bunch of amigos were detained after feigning illness outside the athlete's village and demanding medical attention as a ruse to slip through security at the facility.
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Margot essayed one Scotch air after another, and was instructed in the proper pronunciation of the words; feigning, it is to be feared, an extra amount of incapacity to pronounce the soft "ch," for the sake of giving her patient a better opportunity of displaying his superior adroitness.
Big Game A Story for Girls
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They were widely criticized for feigning injuries to stop the clock.
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With knees bent in, they bob back and forth; some of the men almost look like they're feigning broken limbs.
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Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery?
John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
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He couldn't see me now as I moved carefully away from the entrance, feigning interest in a secretaire bookcase parked against the wall.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Ad placitum, are the characters real before mentioned, and words: although some have been willing by curious inquiry, or rather by apt feigning, to have derived imposition of names from reason and intendment; a speculation elegant, and, by reason it searcheth into antiquity, reverent, but sparingly mixed with truth, and of small fruit.
The Advancement of Learning
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An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
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Hillary Spokesperson Wolfson Strongly Denies Campaign Officially Pushed Obama Turban Pic
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So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph.
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Gay GOP leader BLASTS Bush for "feigning" outrage over Mary Cheney, while gay-baiting to help his re-election by on
10/15/2004
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There was not a trace of feigning good humour.
The Sun
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Feigning surprise, the British and French issued an ultimatum to both sides to cease fire.
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He boasts of dodging military service by feigning illness.
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In rugby union, if a player's thought to be feigning injury, referees have the discretion to order them from the field.
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The Finn never rose to the bait, either feigning an inability to understand the question or flat-batting inquiries with a quizzical shrug and a nondescript answer.
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Having assets frozen ahead of court appearances counters a common fraudster's tactic, which is to draw out proceedings by changing lawyers and feigning illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a sight of joy to see them return at night, axe on shoulder, feigning to march like soldiers, a choragus with a loud voice singing out,
Vailima Letters
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The criminal tried to grasp at a straw by feigning mental disorder.
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Are they feigning a lack of awareness?
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In no manner of feigning or flattering, but in soothfastness of good love and clean charity.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
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Anthony and Maxwell are clamouring for her attention, and now the other girls think she's feigning her injury.
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The one who had been sitting on the doorstep feigning indifference while glancing sideways at us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feigning a headache, I went upstairs to my room.
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When was the last time we heard a manager berate one of his own players on TV for feigning injury, diving, time-wasting or abusing the referee?
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The fact that you are in hospital frees you from the guilt and fear that your bosses might think that you're feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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To them, therefore, I had to feign feigning: I had to feign, that is, that I was feigning to keep their confidence, but that in reality that I was betraying it; while to Mr. Chiffinch I had to disclose these precious secrets not as true but as false, and conjecture with him what was the truth.
Oddsfish!
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As ConWebWatch previously reported, a Dec. 5, 2008, article by Klein mined a blog post by former Weatherman member Jeff Jones to baselessly present speculation that Obama "is 'feigning' a centrist position on some issues so he can ultimately push through a radical agenda" as indisputable fact.
Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily Red-Baits Obama
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Lodovico, with Brabanzio's brother Graziano, hears the wounded men: Iago, feigning to help, stabs Roderigo, then pretends horror on finding him dead.
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His character, a wily bank robber, is feigning a stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
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An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
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The public is in no mood to watch multimillionaires rolling on the ground feigning injury.
Times, Sunday Times
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You know, I think I was a little burned out or kind of feigning being jaded and too cool for high school.
CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2005
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A shadow was on the threshold, and before I had recalled my listless fancy, in tripped Frances Sutherland, herself, feigning not to see me.
Lords of the North
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The semiochemical is even strong enough to awaken lab sharks from tonic immobility, an induced, ‘death-feigning’ state during which researchers can go so far as to perform surgery without arousing the animal.
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Ad placitum, are the characters real before mentioned, and words: although some have been willing by curious inquiry, or rather by apt feigning, to have derived imposition of names from reason and intendment; a speculation elegant, and, by reason it searcheth into antiquity, reverent, but sparingly mixed with truth, and of small fruit.
The Advancement of Learning
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He was accused of feigning injury.
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Levine found, through a series of interesting tests, such as feigning a blind person trying to find and retrieve a lost letter, that
American Coastopia!
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I thank God that I can, with a full and unfeigning heart, utter Amen to this passage.
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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They are awarded for offences such as grabbing, holding, feigning injury, pushing and turning one's back on an opponent.
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Apparently many of his patients try to take him for a ride, feigning injuries to achieve compensation, while other call-outs are totally unnecessary.
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It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
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Duchamp was a Frenchman born in 1887 who managed to skip the first world war by feigning invalidity and resettled himself in New York in 1915.
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Amnon lay down, and made himself sick -- The Orientals are great adepts in feigning sickness, whenever they have any object to accomplish. let Tamar my sister come and make me a couple of cakes -- To the king
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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“Well, one might say it was, considering the man came into my room while I was surrounded by lovelies,” Tychus said, feigning thoughtfulness.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
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Feigning a serious illness, he arranges for him to have a tame doctor prescribe an ocean voyage to Hawaii as a cure.
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Gay GOP leader BLASTS Bush for "feigning" outrage ...
10/15/2004
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The hill where they were feigning to build their wooden palisade commanded a great view of the surrounding countryside.
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You can do that,’ Graham said, feigning a grim visage and not entirely joking.
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... photographs from Camp Breadbasket showed British soldiers standing on Iraqis enmeshed in netting, forcing them to simulate oral and anal sex, feigning to punch them in the head and parading them around on forklift trucks.
I Don't Often ...
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The fact that you are in hospital frees you from the guilt and fear that your bosses might think that you're feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four medical experts had examined him and agreed that it was'out of the question' that he was feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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She plays him for a fool, often feigning helplessness just to see what lengths he will go to in order to prove his love for her.
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Struggled into work and spent the entire day trying not to fall asleep at my desk (I managed to get some shut-eye in the loos though - feigning a dicky tummy and doing my best to look pale, which wasn't too difficult).
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An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
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But Siegfried was wise, and stowed away his _Tarnkappe_ with care; then he went back where the women sat, and said feigningly to Gunther,
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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He found them in bed, and to all appearance asleep, they having slipped into bed without removing their "toggery," and feigning sleep.
Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
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The singer is admitting to the listener that he is feigning the innocence of a lamb in order to get close to Little Red.
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Four medical experts had examined him and agreed that it was'out of the question' that he was feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact that you are in hospital frees you from the guilt and fear that your bosses might think that you're feigning illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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His unfeigning, untroubled nature would have rejoiced the heart of sham-hating Emerson.
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock
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Having assets frozen ahead of court appearances counters a common fraudster's tactic, which is to draw out proceedings by changing lawyers and feigning illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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When was the last time we heard a manager berate one of his own players on TV for feigning injury, diving, time-wasting or abusing the referee?
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Darcy briefly toyed with the idea of feigning unconsciousness.
