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词汇 feigned
释义 feigned
past simple and past participle offeign
feign
verb[ T ]
uk /feɪn/ us /feɪn/
to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. : 假装(某种感情),装作
You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.你知道当你告诉别人你的年龄时,他们如何故作惊讶。
The prosecution claimed that the defendant had feigned the injury.原告代理律师称被告的伤是伪装的。
She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement.她对他的话假装感兴趣。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to act as if something is true when it is not
pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise.
make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce.
play at somethingUK The children are playing at cops and robbers.
role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping.
fakeShe's only faking being ill.
feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
bluff someone into something/doing something
changeling
cry
faker
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
out-bluff
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-act
professed
purport
quackery

Examples of feigned


feigned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Sales authorities were highly conscious that customers' suspicions about feigned sincerity by sales agents could undermine the larger goal of promoting consumption.
The one who is touched takes hold of the end, and replies in a feigned voice to three questions asked him by the blind man.
Detection of feigned recognition memory impairment using the old/new effect of the event-related potential.
The offering of feigned opposition can give moderates a welcome scapegoat and pretext for moderation.
After a reconciliation with his father that was more feigned than sincere, he sought e to establish relations with the ministers.
Malingering and factitious disorders, where the symptoms are produced or feigned intentionally, are excluded.
A final limitation in the methodology is the fact that there were two experimenters who feigned distress.
The convention of suffixes constructed to designate higher degrees of oxygenation is no more helpful; here, no rhetorically realist evocation is even feigned.
It is difficult to determine whether such reasoning was genuine or feigned.
The coercive strategy represents an effort to control caregiver behavior through angry, threatening, or coy (feigned immaturity or fearfulness) behavior.
In such cases the open display of affection was 'feigned' (krtaka).
He prepares them for a feigned journey.
Cake, but no singing, in the menfolk's absence (and presumed or feigned ignorance) was a reasoned and negotiated compromise.
He feigned ignorance but eventually supplied the necessary information.
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During that time she feigned unconsciousness and kept herself afloat until he left the scene.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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