How to Use feigned in a Sentence

feigned

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• Then Phillips ripped off the mask, rolled his eyes and feigned relief as the crowd cheered for him.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• On the other side of the road, his rival taunted him with feigned fear.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• And from the ashes of that feigned concern, Women Who Whiskey was born.
  — Shelbie Lynn Bostedt, RedEye Chicago, 6 July 2017
• Fans express outrage about the threat of brain damage to their heroes, so there must be at least a feigned effort at reducing hits.
  — James Surowiecki, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• The context here makes David's feigned skepticism over the company in these sketches even funnier.
  — Jacob Linden, Country Living, 7 Feb. 2023
• Asked how people in Arkansas viewed the pandemic, Mallett chuckled and feigned ignorance.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2022
• This dance of feigned, unearned intimacies played on endlessly at every meeting.
  — Ling Ma, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• China’s real or feigned refusal to understand that the North’s nuclear program forces the South to improve its own defenses shows where its sympathies really lie.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
• Hilarity fails to ensue via such episodes as Sebastian pretending to be a bad tennis player to impress his father (don’t ask) and having to reveal himself when his game partner Tigger becomes irate at his feigned fumbling.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• Information, no matter how much the political censors grandstand upon feigned morality, cannot be contained.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• One thing Hax and her minions do with astonishing frequency is recommend divorce for virtually every marital ill, real and feigned.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Nearly as disturbing as Brown’s sleazy collusion with his supposed ideological enemies was the local press’s feigned or actual ignorance of what was clearly unfolding.
  — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• The writer-director team clearly means to maintain ambiguity about the intentions of Stewart-Jarrett’s character Jules, masking his end goal in real or feigned romantic intoxication.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024