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feigned
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A Hologram for the King
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- Alan was startled, but feigned calm.†
p. 77.2 *feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
- Ruby had never had an accent of any kind but she said those words with a twang, and Alan could only guess that she felt that feigning some country blood allowed her to interfere, would collapse the class distinctions between them.†
p. 105.4feigning = pretending (making a pretense of)
- He just walked around in that suit, feigning weightlessness, and then he went back inside.†
p. 153.4
- Al-Ahmad feigned the searching of his mind.†
p. 330.4feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
Definitions:
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(1)
(feigned) pretended -- usually pretending to feel something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)