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Colton said she could not have imagined such a possibility when she sat in school, feigning that she had no answers to teachers’ questions simply because she could not see the board.

And yet, many also practice the human tendency of feigning blindness concerning topics too unpleasant to confront directly.

When another student enters and surveys the bodies on the ground in poorly feigned shock, few manage to suppress their giggles.

Prosecutors argued Patterson had faked a cancer diagnosis to coax the guests to her house, then poisoned them and feigned illness to ward off suspicion.

“Go on,” Johnson says with a feigned seriousness.