How to use feign in a sentence

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• I've never left my key ring in anyone's fruit bowl.' I feign outrage.2015, Carmel Harrington, Every Time a Bell Rings. From the entry how very dare you
• You get a cold smackdown if you don't at least feign badassness and say you've smoked weed.2014, Bill Landauer, We Are All Crew, page 38. From the entry badassness
• Weaponized incompetence, also known as strategic incompetence, refers to the deliberate feigning of incompetence to avoid certain tasks or responsibilities.2023 September 18, Mark Travers, “2 Ways ‘Weaponized Incompetence’ Might Be Hurting Your Relationship”, in Forbes. From the entry weaponized incompetence
• These days, I'd be more likely to feign a weekend stomach bug and reschedule drinks until I was feeling less mad.2020 February 19, Olga Khazan, “Corporate Buzzwords Are How Workers Pretend to Be Adults”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry resched
• Feigning indifference, Stacey strolled quickly toward the batwings.2016 July 31, James Clay, Hard Stone, Robert Hale Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry batwing
• Nervous and shaky but feigning confidence, I completed the interview with ease and even managed to vibe with the country cutie.2014, Mandy Hale, I've Never Been to Vegas, but My Luggage Has. From the entry vibe
• In true anthropophagistic fashion, an apparently domesticated cultural subject trumps its more powerful opponent by feigning a retreat.1990, Neil Larsen, Modernism and Hegemony: A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies. From the entry anthropophagistic
• If I feel placid or unalive must I feign excitement?1975, Clark E. Moustakas, The Touch of Loneliness, page 39. From the entry unalive
• Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph. From the entry detractor
• Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very liberally.2009, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Page 203. From the entry bescratch
• She keeps still, feigning cataleptic exhaustion.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 771. From the entry cataleptic
• Sullenly they paid what was asked, sullenly left, Hamzah feigning a kick at the glass showcase filled with loaves and Chinese cakes.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972. From the entry sullenly
• In the middle of their ultrasilent trashing, the active woke up, looked around at the pledges frozen in mid-toilet-papering, and then fell back down feigning sleep.1985, Robert Egan, From Here to Fraternity, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry ultrasilent

Meaning of feign

1. verb To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
2. verb To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
3. verb To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.

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Questions about feign in a sentence

How do you use feign in a sentence?

Feign is used as a verb. For example: “The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.”

What is a short sentence with feign?

“She keeps still, feigning cataleptic exhaustion.”

What does feign mean?

Feign means to make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.