All 6 Uses
feigned
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Sea Wolf
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- But he was consumed with indignation, real or feigned.†
Chpt 4 *feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
- He shaved hairs from the back of his hand, glanced along the edge with microscopic acuteness, and found, or feigned that he found, always, a slight inequality in its edge somewhere.†
Chpt 9
- In the lower bunk lay Louis, grossly fat and warm and sweaty, asleep unfeignedly and sleeping laboriously.†
Chpt 14unfeignedly = without pretendingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfeignedly means not and reverses the meaning of feignedly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- What if he should be feigning this?†
Chpt 36feigning = pretending (making a pretense of)
- He feigned at first, and in doing so brought it on.†
Chpt 36feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
- Feigning again?†
Chpt 37feigning = pretending (making a pretense of)
Definitions:
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(1)
(feigned) pretended -- usually pretending to feel something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)