Both Uses of
feigned
in
The Call of the Wild
- Pike, the malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully feigned a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest.†
p. 95.5 *feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
- And as Buck understood the oaths to be love words, so the man understood this feigned bite for a caress.†
p. 128.4
Definition:
pretended -- usually pretending to feel something