Verite

If I'm happy with what I'm putting out and proud of it - that is becoming enough for me. It's testing myself, but I'm ready to do it, whereas I wasn't ready before. Sometimes it's feigned confidence, but if I make a decision, I can do anything.

American Musician

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

American Businesswoman

Roxane Gay

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

American Writer

Nostradamus

Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.

French Celebrity

Hedy Lamarr

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Austrian Actress

Jill Soloway

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

American Comedian

Sterling K. Brown

Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.

American Actor

Juan Goytisolo

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Spanish Poet

Quentin Tarantino

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

American Director

Jacqueline Fernandez

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

Actress

Used to show someone is faking emotions they don't really feel for personal gain or to deceive.

Emotional Deception

Sometimes, 'feign' can indicate sarcasm if used in a context where true feelings are obvious.

Sarcasm Detection

Often found in literature to show characters hiding their true feelings or intentions.

Literary Device

Used when someone invents a story or reason to avoid doing something or to explain behavior.

Creating Excuses

People may 'feign' a story or an excuse as a defense mechanism to justify their actions.

False Justification

Used to describe someone imitating something well enough to deceive others into believing it's genuine.

Deceptive Mimicry

Noticing when someone is 'feigning' can reveal their true intentions or feelings.

Spotting Fake Traits

 surprised about this I was surprised though when we watched a mongoose he was almost like he was looking for attention as a little pup was trying to death feign in front of a yellow-billed humble now yellow ball at home was never going to eat among those well I shouldn't say never but the chances are highly unlikely they have a completely

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 so it's pointed downwards and you see these little sand lance fish swarming all over the bottom that's the prey that the whales going after but they're not actually buried and so the whales are skimming right along the bottom of the sea but they're not actually digging into it this bottom feigning behavior

Video Reveals Surprising...

 of the stuff is all new because you haven't spent much time in the bush I have you in accenture but and I'm gonna put out on camera as well before before the show end so you can see what in the scene she looks like and I said no actually this is an amazing process where it's called death feigning where

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 It meant to let people speak and to make others listen. Divisive Twitter trolls were quick to create even more injustice, commenting on my attacker's ethnicity or class to push their own prejudiced agendas. And some even accused me of feigning the whole thing

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 I have ever even dreamed of now I can look at all those words that used to for millennia disappear I can look at lies that before were said and then gone remember those a shorter feigning reviews that we were talking about before well when they write a fake

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 Surely there was a flaw in Frigg’s plan. Taking the form of an old woman, Loki crept to Frigg’s side and feigned confusion. Why were the gods attacking sweet Baldur, whom they all loved so dearly? Frigg told her of the oaths, but the old woman pressed on.

The myth of Loki and the...

 feigning who knows so I grabbed his arm twisted him up took him through the rest of the process shut up go in there you're gonna shout go to sleep shut up do not stand out bang on my window don't bother the other inmates anything to drink please

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 rambles on about the flighty wife of a crotchety old carpenter and the scholar she takes as her lover. To get some time alone together, the scholar and the wife play various tricks that involve feigning madness, staging a biblical flood,

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 Some animals even feign death as a sexual ploy. Male nursery spiders offer gifts of silk-wrapped insects in hopes of wooing females. But those females are known to eat love-seeking males.

The surprising reasons...

 the resident troop it's them roof the invaders feign unconcerned but they're keeping an eye on the reinforcements

Feign

Pretend to be affected by a feeling, state, or injury.

Often appears as...

To invent a story or excuse.

Often appears as...

Imitate deceptively.

Often appears as...

Emotional Deception

Sarcasm Detection

Literary Device

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