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feignful

feignful adjective: false; feigned.

Adjective

feignful (comparative more feignful, superlative most feignful)

  1. False; feigned.
    • The bawd, all palsy-twitched, whose feignful glee, When he beholds her face upon the morrow, With sobered brain, will freeze his jollity To speechless horror, till he fain would borrow Thy veil, once more, to hide his young remorseful sorrow.1847, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-rhyme : in Ten Books, page 138
    • So feignful for its creator to flee in glee as the mighty vessel was capsizing before him.2008, Sean C. Cusack, Code 3: The Rise & Fall of a Private Ambulance Empire, page 401

Forms of feignful

comparativemore feignful
superlativemost feignful

Origin of feignful

From feign + -ful.

Questions about feignful

What does feignful mean?
Feignful means false; feigned.
What part of speech is feignful?
Feignful is an adjective.

Words near feignful in the dictionary

  1. feignedness
  2. feigner
  3. feigners
  4. feignest
  5. feigneth
  6. feignful
  7. Feignies
  8. feigning
  9. feigningly
  10. feignings
  11. feigns

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