feigned
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Feigned ignorance was merely part of her repertoire.
From Time • Nov. 29, 2
Feigned compliance is the term used by Lucian Pye, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to describe such self-protective make-believe and the obedience it spawns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Feigned issues shall also be abolished, and the fact at issue tried by order of Court before a jury.
From Constitution of the State of North Carolina and Copy of the Act of the General Assembly Entitled An Act to Amend the Constitution of the State of North Carolina by North Carolina
Voiced he for the lover Passion of his breast; Feigned he, death to lighten, Islands of the Blest.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.
Feigned Innocence; or Sir Martin Mar-all, a Comedy, acted at the duke of York's theatre, and printed in 4to.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus
Vocabulary lists containing feigned
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