feigned

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪnd/
• Rhymes: -eɪnd

feigned (not comparable)

1. Being a pretense, simulation, or counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
   • 1641 (posth.), Ben Jonson. Discoveries Made upon Men and Matters, "Mores aulici":

     I have discovered that a feigned familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less. For great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them. So the fisher provides bait for the trout, roach, dace, &c., that they may be food to him.

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in The Old Curiosity Shop‎, archived from the original on 11 August 2014:

     "I have passed my word," said Jowl with feigned reluctance, "and I'll keep it. When does this match come off? I wish it was over. -- To-night?"

   • 1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:

     And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light.

• See also Thesaurus:fake

• feigned issue

feigned

1. simple past and past participle of feign

• feeding