“They just said they would get in touch,” I replied, feigning disinterest. This was shortly after Obama released his birth certificate and Trump faked a presidential candidacy. The goal of a contest queen is to trot in your bikini to be watched while feigning sexual naivety. (a) fictitious; allegedly; Suppository; simulated. Feigned accomplice. Someone who claims to consult and act with others when planning or committing a crime, but only to expose their plans and allies and obtain evidence against them. See People v. Bolanger, 71 Cal. 17, 11 Pac.

800. Deed feigned. Practically. An action based on a false right, if the plaintiff has no real cause of action, for an unlawful purpose. In a feigned act, the words of Scripture are true. This is different from a bad action. In this case, the terms of the request are incorrect. Co.

suffered. 361. Feigned diseases. Simulated diseases. Diseases are usually simulated for one of three causes: fear, shame or hope of gain. Feigned problem. Question invented at the request of a fair court (or with the consent of the parties) and sent to a common law court to obtain the verdict of a jury on a disputed fact over which the court has no jurisdiction or intention to decide. It is based on a suppository bet between the parties. (b) Publishing, practical. A matter given by mutual agreement of the parties or at the direction of a court in equity or courts having fair jurisdiction to hear a jury case on a contentious matter on which the court is unable or unwilling to rule. One of the weapons in their armory feigned anger, and few could stand before their anger. Almost instantly, he met the prison guard, gesticulated, and feigned violent anger.

They sense how you tense up in strange moments, act nervous, laugh a little too loudly, feign indignation or surprise. Whether Mrs. Probasco pretended or not, the remarkable fact was that the following experiments varied considerably in their effectiveness. Invite him to share it, but don`t take one yourself by faking a sudden illness. As they pretended to speak calmly as they continued, our two friends` nerves were stretched to the extreme. They already know the answer, but they know that by feigning ignorance, they can start this whole debate about it. I bit my lip and feigned a smile, put on my heavy jacket and rescheduled all week. Note: See also etymologies in dough, paradise and thigmotropism. Feign is pretending, but that wasn`t always the case. In one of its earliest meanings, pretend meant “fashion, form, or form.” This meaning corresponds to the Latin ancestor of the term: the verb finger, which also means “to create”. Today`s senses of pretension still retain the essence of the Latin source, for to claim something, such as surprise or illness, one must make an impression or form an image.

Several other English words that go back to the same ancestor refer to things formed either with the hands, as in figure and portrait, or imagination, as in fiction and fantasy. Ruth catches her husband looking at a photo of his first wife, Elvira, feigning indifference. Assane poses as a computer scientist to gain access to the corrupt police commissioner who investigated his father`s case and feigns insult when his credentials are questioned. Supported by Black`s Law Dictionary, Free 2nd ed., and The Law Dictionary. The Middle English feynen, feigen “to make, to make, to make an image, to disassemble, to pretend to be”, borrowed from English French, rod of feindre, back to the Latin finger “form, form, make an image, pretends to be”, goes back to the Indo-European *dhi-n-ǵh- (hence also the Old Irish con-utuinc “built, built”, Armenian dizanem “[I] heap”), present derived from *dhei̯ǵh- “kneading, form”, hence the Gothic digan “kneading, kneading, forming from clay”, Old Slavic church ziždǫ, zĭdati “to build”, Lithuanian žiedžiù, žiẽsti “to form, form (from clay)” (Balto-Slavic with stop consonant metathesis), Armenian edēz “(s/er) stacked”, Tocharian B tsik – “fashion, form, construction”, Sanskrit bet. Déhat will “cover, lubricate”.