"feigning to be" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means pretending or faking to be something or someone. Example: The actor was feigning to be a detective, as he prepared for his role in the upcoming movie.
My mother and aunt survived by feigning to be dead.
While Ken Loach's 1966 BBC play, Cathy Come Home, did much to strip the scales from Britain's eyes about the calamity of homelessness, Cathy's fictional plight seems unlikely to greatly detain audiences of today, more routinely tickled (if not feigning to be outraged) by Channel 4's Benefits Street.
His feigning to be out of breath in the Mandolin dance, though humanizing, is a bit too real.
That's more like feigning to be single while you've got a wedding ring on.
This statement was pure hypocrisy: "a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not".
Yet often the pretender begins to love truly after all, and often becomes what he has feigned to be.
However, one essential difference that separates this novella from the genre is that it never feigns to be a reality and clearly states in the preface to be a complete fantasy intended to soothe the mind, whereas most science fiction works arduously strive to be an extension of our reality.
The parable of the three fish (which tale Robbi Robb of Tribe after Tribe and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam performed on a 1996 album called Three Fish) illustrates how the fish that flails about trying to save itself draws attention to itself and is caught by fishermen, whereas the fish that feigned to be carrion – dying before death – did not fall prey to the net (Masnavi 4: 2202ff).
Because in a society that feigns to be cutting sugar, after cutting carbs, after cutting fat- the best available evidence suggests we never actually cut anything.
One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than (s)he is. 2. Monet, a reality-show contestant and loser.
The smiles and bows that accompany their daily greetings only feign to be about an exchange of news.
