Simulated or pretended; insincere.
her eyes widened with feigned shock
Example sentencesExamples
- That justification has already been rendered void by the judiciary, so a feigned appeal to ‘diversity’ is the only rationalization left.
- All of this feigned rankle and melodramatic outrage!
- It was part of a certain mood of feigned seriousness about ‘climate change.’
- A controlled belly-laugh, followed by a small closing cough of feigned detachment.
- You'll pardon me if I don't take this feigned outrage very seriously.