FEIGNED in a Sentence

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40 example sentences for FEIGNED, such as:

1. Lady Macbeth decided to feign illness although she was actually healthy.
2. She knew that he only feigned to be asleep, but she said nothing to him.
3. You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.
4. One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness.
5. He glanced at Rostov with a feigned smile and waved his hand in greeting.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEIGNED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
feigned
 a.  not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Then he descended with cautious and slow step, for he dreaded lest an accident similar to that he had so adroitly feigned should happen in reality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
2  Ali, having pointed to the apartments, held up three fingers of his right hand, and then, placing it beneath his head, shut his eyes, and feigned to sleep.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
3  The baron might possibly have perceived it, but, attributing it to a caprice, feigned ignorance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 84. Beauchamp.
4  I don't recall the words now, but I remember well that through the high-flown phrases there was apparent a genuine feeling, which cannot be feigned.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
5  "Ma chere, there is a time for everything," said the countess with feigned severity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
6  He glanced at Rostov with a feigned smile and waved his hand in greeting.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
7  So she feigned a mocking laugh and said, "Eurynome, I have changed my mind, and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVIII
8  I knew gipsies and fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  Presently a breeze sprang up; Stubb feigned to cast off from the whale; hoisting his boats, the Frenchman soon increased his distance, while the Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
11  She knew that he only feigned to be asleep, but she said nothing to him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
12  As Louisa feigned to rouse herself, and sat up, Sissy retired, so that she stood placidly near the bedside.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
13  Besides, the physician might declare the ailment feigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
14  Milady, with a rapid gesture, opened her robe, tore the cambric that covered her bosom, and red with feigned anger and simulated shame, showed the young man the ineffaceable impression which dishonored that beautiful shoulder.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
15  We agreed, without any more consultation, that we would both go, and that Dora was a little Impostor, who feigned to be rather unwell, because she liked to be petted.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
Example Sentence:
1  I knew fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.
2  She feigned interest in a magazine article to avoid meeting the man's stare.
3  Lady Macbeth decided to feign illness although she was actually healthy.
4  A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sells it on the black market.
5  The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.
6  One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness.
7  You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.