Sentences with feigned
feigned
F f - 'Giles phoned this morning,' Mirella said with feigned indifference.
- feigned enthusiasm.
- He replied with feigned bewilderment.
- The figures are captured in feigned rapture, as in the frivolous fantasies of fashion magazines.
- A feigned name.
- A feigned voice.
- On the controversy involving domestic eavesdropping without court approval, Mr Bush feigned astonishment.
- Her feigned allegiance was a stunt organised by the Geelong marketing machine and Liberal recruit Billy Brownless.
- To feign sickness.
- To feign another's voice.
- But you are allowed to go behind the escalator and peer inside its feigned mechanical gizzards.
- She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.
- 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.