Meaning of FEIGNED
| Pronunciation: | | feynd
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| | Definition: | | [adj] not genuine; "feigned sympathy" |
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| | Synonyms: | | insincere |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Feigned\, a.
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
false. ``A feigned friend.'' --Shak.
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
lips. --Ps. xvii. 1.
-- {Feign"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Feign"ed*ness}, n.
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii.
10.
{Feigned issue} (Law), an issue produced in a pretended
action between two parties for the purpose of trying
before a jury a question of fact which it becomes
necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill.
--Bouvier.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fictitious, fictive, garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped |
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