FEIGNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feigned mean? 

• FEIGNED (adjective)
  The adjective FEIGNED has 1 sense:

1. not genuine

  Familiarity information: FEIGNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEIGNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not genuine

Context example:

feigned sympathy

Similar:

insincere (lacking sincerity)

 Context examples 

I knew gipsies and fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“It was a real attack this time,” I said: “another shock like the one that made him blind. He feigned at first, and in doing so brought it on.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Messner made a well-feigned gesture of helplessness. "I really don't know. It is one of those impossible situations against which there can be no provision."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Five hundred paces from the English the two great bodies of horse crossed each other, and, sweeping round in a curve, retired in feigned confusion towards their centre.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He watched and waited, until he feigned a wild rush, which he stopped midway, for he had seen the glint of metal.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And as Buck understood the oaths to be love words, so the man understood this feigned bite for a caress.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Had he feigned a regard for her which he did not feel?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her triumph in this connexion with my work, and her delight when I wanted a new pen—which I very often feigned to do—suggested to me a new way of pleasing my child-wife.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In return he feigned anger, bristling and growling ferociously, and clipping his teeth together in snaps that had all the seeming of deadly intention.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Had he appeared surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)