Words and phrases that have a meaning related to feigning: (171 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
Synonyms:
Also try:pretence, pretense, simulation
— Adjectives for feigning: most, deliberate, such, death, own, mere, conscious, intentional, lowly, injury, second, more...
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