Sentence examples for feign from inspiring English sources
'feign' is a correct and usable word in written English. You would use 'feign' to describe something someone is pretending or simulating. For example: The actor feigned sadness as his character said goodbye to his beloved.
We always feign surprise when an actor of ours is embraced by Hollywood.
The women said they resisted instructions from Zanu-PF supporters to feign illiteracy, blindness or physical injury, which would have meant someone else marking the ballot on their behalf.
That move will send shockwaves through Portuguese football, and force hipsters in England to feign excitement, even though in truth they care more about what's happening at Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea, deep down, but are too worried about their image to say.
This is why, as another defeated middle-aged man who no longer believes in anything, obliged to feign conviction for financial gain, I understand David Cameron.
He insists that he will not give in to resentment nor will he feign a suffering for what happened to his biological parents that he has not felt himself.
"And we're going to go through the same cycles of periodic violence, and the occasional riots in the streets, and everybody will feign concern until it goes away, and then we go about our business as usual".
Tony Blair did not feign centrism when he was winning all those elections; he believed in it.
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