1. feigned - Adjective
2. feigned - Verb
4. feigned - Adjective Satellite
of Feign
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNecessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. Oliver Cromwell
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind. Solon
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. Cicero
Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die. John Donne
Of all our feigned affections, there is none So hollow, selfish, and injurious, As what we christen Patriotism. Alfred Austin
You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron. Anna Akhmatova