Sentence examples for feigning illness from inspiring English sources

The staff were concerned I was feigning illness for sympathy, and making my baby ill for attention.

Avoid unpromising work assignments by feigning illness.

He boycotted the Goa meeting, feigning illness.

A former fellow captive said Sotloff had even succeeded in fasting for the festival of Yom Kippur by feigning illness.

But Judge Leibovitz suggested in court that Mr. Diop was feigning illness to avoid appearing in court.

Mr Advani, in a huff, refused to attend the BJP's party meeting at the weekend, apparently feigning illness, and only grudgingly endorsed Mr Modi as campaign leader.

He remembered striking PWs on eight occasions but were all for infractions of the rules, for feigning illnesses or for absenting themselves from work.

Münchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior in which Internet users seek attention by feigning illnesses in online venues such as chat rooms, message boards, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

Our friend should have feigned illness and whipped her 11-year-old daughter off for a pizza.

You tore your own clothing, you cut your body with a pair of scissors, you feigned illness and injury.

He was "an ineffective and anxious speaker, a whisperer who on occasion feigned illness to avoid reading his speeches aloud," Fliegelman said.