Both Uses of
feigned
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "That's just the point, that at the present moment," Raskolnikov tried his utmost to feign embarrassment, "I am not quite in funds...and even this trifling sum is beyond me...I only wanted, you see, for the present to declare that the things are mine, and that when I have money...."†
Chpt 3.5feign = pretend (make a pretense of)
- "You seem to be jeering at me, brother?" he said to him, with a well-feigned irritability.†
Chpt 3.5 *feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
Definition:
pretended -- usually pretending to feel something