feigned

Adjective
US[feynd]/feɪnd/1 syllable

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. not genuine“feigned sympathy”Opposite sincereSimilar insincere
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Feigned adjective

Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. “A feigned friend.” William Shakespeare

Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.— Ps. xvii. 1.

— Feign′wb-a1′>′ed·ly (#), adverb — Feign′wb-a1′>′ed·ness, noun

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, John

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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