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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to feigning:   (178 results)

Often used in the same context:
faking, seeming, inducing, pretending, disguising, smirking, professing, dissimulate, wink, mocking, smacks, chortling, avoiding, wincing, twitching, engendering, writhing, openmouthed, crooking, cringing, evincing, wheedling, expressing, squirming, mumbling, good naturedness, tormenting, disembowelling, masquerading, malinger, yelping, mistaking, succumbing, betraying, needling, henpecking, masking, misdirecting, brazened, maddened, palsied, flailing, salving, skulks, concealing, babbling, dandling, moaning, obfuscating, upbraid, jerking, leers, dissembling, flagellating, hoodwinks, misspeaks, avowing, ridiculing, playacting, coitus interruptus, whimpering, chloroformed, caterwauled, tugging, contriving, glorying, forwent, muttering, eliciting, dodging, fibbing, exculpating, manifesting, deprecating, ducking, mewling, grimacing, shrieked, gasping, birdbrained, roused, hide, risking, crouching, scampering, snivel, scurrying, tittering, cowering, exploiting, overplaying, discoursing, quailing, lacerates, giggling, humoring, gulling, recriminating, frazzling, arousing, pantomiming, weaseling, dissimulation, plagiarism, deceit, deceivers, fraud, malingering, misrepresentation, perjury, arson, cheating, concealment, deception, dishonesty, evasion, falsehood, mystification, archaism, archaisms, badness, bringing, pugnacious, aggressive, arrogant, atavistic, bellicose, canny, carnivorous, cheeky, chivalrous, cocky, decerebrate, defiant, gregarious, histrionic, mating, migratory, nesting, nonchalant, polygamous, predatory

More specific:
affectation, appearance, bluff, hypocrisy, lip service, make-believe, mannerism, masquerade, pose, pretext, show, stalking-horse

Appears in the definition of:
bamboozle, common opossum, didelphis marsupialis, didelphis virginiana, hoodwink, lead by the nose, malingerer, munchausen's syndrome, munchausen syndrome, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, shammer, skulker, snow

More general:
deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation

Synonyms:
dissembling, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation

Also try:
— Adjectives for feigning: most, deliberate, such, death, own, mere, conscious, intentional, lowly, injury, second, more...

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