How to Use feigned in a Sentence

feigned

adjective

• On the other side of the road, his rival taunted him with feigned fear.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• Then Phillips ripped off the mask, rolled his eyes and feigned relief as the crowd cheered for him.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• Spare me the feigned outrage, Feeny.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
• Pretending to reel from the news, the senator clutched his head in feigned shock.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Sep. 2023
• Girls complain of being weighed down, at times with feigned annoyance.
  — Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• As the knife drew closer, Jennings, whose back was to the camera, turned around and leapt back in feigned terror.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• While the rage comes naturally to Scott, the reflection can feel feigned and forced.
  — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
• Fans express outrage about the threat of brain damage to their heroes, so there must be at least a feigned effort at reducing hits.
  — James Surowiecki, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• Fey and Poehler interrupted the host’s monologue, much to his (feigned) surprise, and critiqued his joke telling.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
• This dance of feigned, unearned intimacies played on endlessly at every meeting.
  — Ling Ma, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• There’s no feigned seriousness, no proclamations of honesty.
  — T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
• Holidays are performative - Mikey Day appears to demonstrate his feigned love for his son’s gift.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2023
• At that exact moment, the album shifts gears, exchanging feigned authenticity for an honest search for meaning.
  — Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
• With feigned incredulity, Darrow asked whether Bryan hadn’t ever tried to learn about older and other civilizations.
  — Lisa Grunwald, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
• Stewart exclaimed with feigned enthusiasm.
  — Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
• Asked how people in Arkansas viewed the pandemic, Mallett chuckled and feigned ignorance.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2022
• Information, no matter how much the political censors grandstand upon feigned morality, cannot be contained.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• During her feigned pregnancy, Stephanie Ott, one of Griffin’s friends who had grown suspicious of Parker, called the clinic to ask about her.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
• Hall is tasked with delivering gouts of exposition and staring in feigned wonderment at screensaver-resembling new regions of the center of the Earth.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
• One thing Hax and her minions do with astonishing frequency is recommend divorce for virtually every marital ill, real and feigned.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• If responding to questions with feigned but believable thoughtfulness was all that mattered, Lindsey Graham would be President.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
• China’s real or feigned refusal to understand that the North’s nuclear program forces the South to improve its own defenses shows where its sympathies really lie.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
• That leaves only the feigned feud between Paul and Gronkowski — Brady’s longtime pal and New England Patriots teammate.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• In a moment of feigned indignation, Sandler threatened to storm out of the ceremony, which prompted O'Brien to apologize for his attack.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
• The scam operations typically involve bogus investment schemes and feigned romances that collectively extort tens of billions of dollars from victims around the world every year.
  — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
• The White Lotus as a whole is generally on the side of honesty over feigned politeness, but Laurie is going so nuclear, so quickly, that perhaps this will turn out to be an exception.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
• Hilarity fails to ensue via such episodes as Sebastian pretending to be a bad tennis player to impress his father (don’t ask) and having to reveal himself when his game partner Tigger becomes irate at his feigned fumbling.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• Edgerton also convinced the pair to rename their fledgling chain Insta-Burger King, reinforcing the feigned royalty with a pylon sign showing a smiling, crowned monarch seated on a giant hamburger bun, a huge fountain drink in hand.
  — Steve Patterson, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• Sugarcane repeats Obama’s feigned concern for the plight of indigenous people that first worked magic in 2008, an America-last doc about Canada’s Sugarcane reserve.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
• ThinkTechAct’s founder, Mahad Ibrahim, pleaded guilty to defrauding the free food reimbursement system through his feigned nonprofit group as part of the Feeding Our Future network.
  — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2026