Sentence examples for feigned and from inspiring English sources

The response from Republican officials tended toward outrage, both feigned and genuine.

That poses and postures can be feigned and broken is of course one of the lessons of "Twelfth Night".

His affection for Syria and the Syrians isn't feigned, and he did enough homework to assemble an absorbing and entertaining, if insubstantial, portrait of the land.

Cilic denied that his knee injury had been feigned and emphasized that a deciding factor in accepting the voluntary suspension was that his results at Wimbledon might have been invalidated later.

The judges were right when they finally told the accused that all he had said was "empty talk" — except that they thought the emptiness feigned, and believed that the accused wished to cover up other thoughts, which were not empty but hideous.

Here was a man of steadfast personal courage who spoke up in his writing for those called cowards, for the schlemiels and wise guys and pranksters who, faced with the unimaginable evils of human existence, feigned and dodged and, sometimes, survived.

There is only an unaffected exuberance impossible to feign and a smile that has lighted living rooms — and brightened Twitter feeds — across the United States.

To win her release, Elizabeth feigned marriage and refused food and drink in case they were drugged.

On television, professional wrestlers feigned rage and pain.

So he feigned cramp and ran off the field.

Although wounded, a man named Wo Ah Lin feigned death and survived.