feigned
AdjectiveUS[feynd]/feɪnd/1 syllable
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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