It is never helpful to feign ignorance during a test. From LearnThat.org.
A result of the energy required to feign agreement. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures of an Inhibition] Reference
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
Fe fie feign in cram the madness of humen and doggies. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Don't feign a coolness which is foreign to your nature! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
He knew how to pose, to feign affability and to be sincere. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Most women, however, are either interested or feign interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bitterness of Butterfly Wings] Reference
It churned up the poor and the desperate, forcing them to feign. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
"I am not so simple, señora, I can feign love -- for love's sake.". From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
From the first drink to the salad course I feign interest in her career. From Wordnik.com. [Ready For The Real Scoop?] Reference
Sony's AIBO asks to be petted and flips its ears to feign understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Future Toy Boy] Reference
For now he'd feign anger at his supervisor and push it all inside again. From Wordnik.com. [Dawdling] Reference
Interestingly enough, McCain's first impulse seemed to be to feign ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Journalist of the Year] Reference
He's the type of person who would feign special understanding of complex issues. From Wordnik.com. [And Justice For All] Reference
Denying depression may help us feign those virtues, but the cost of denial is huge. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Of A Man: Stop Pretending Nothing's Wrong] Reference
You choke back your disgust and feign interest -- offering up a weak "great APP man.". From Wordnik.com. [Eric Villency: Testing the Torch] Reference
The heathens might feign their gods of the woods, from certain monsters sometimes seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
"No one can feign that we're not all over fraud now, in this administration," Stevens says. From Wordnik.com. [Executives with criminal records slip through FHA crackdown, documents show] Reference
I will shortly feign sickness, and do you on your side lavish your pains to provide for my tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
But now, as I moodily popped peanuts into my mouth, I could hardly feign preoccupation any longer. From Wordnik.com. [14-B] Reference
I thought to have a jest and to feign: but now must I needs complain, for Death loves not my jest. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
He did not feign objectivity, he did not suffer verbosity and he did not pull his haymaker punches. From Wordnik.com. [In word & picture, a colleague pays tribute to PAUL CONRAD] Reference
I am not that kind of woman, she retorted to feign an independence of her lover that was not hers. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Ashamed to own that his return was owing to his inability to ride, Jerome resolved to feign sickness. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
And he would feign have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Americans have attention defect disorder, and it does not take much for us to feign interest in a crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Mirabella: We Got so Excited We Forgot We Were Mad at Target] Reference
He bore her fancies with patience, but he thought it best for her that he should feign some anger at them. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"And yet, Federico, best beloved, why should I feign indifference, or conceal that my heart is wholly yours?". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
If inspectors find the chemicals, the Chinese are likely to feign ignorance, exacerbating Sino-U.S. tensions. From Wordnik.com. [Psst! Wanna Buy A Missile?] Reference
She would content herself with occasional visits, if he could only feign some plausible tale to account for long absences. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
If no one dares even feign confidence in forecasts, business tends to grind to a crawl, which is happening all over the world. From Wordnik.com. [Frozen By Uncertainty] Reference
He thinks four meals a week at his parents 'house is perfect; you try to feign appendicitis every time you pull in that driveway. From Wordnik.com. [Online love: Founder of CouplesSpark.com develops a 'Marriage Ref' for the Web] Reference
Minutes dragged by; the suspense was frightful but his knowledge of the wilderness bade him feign sleep and he moved not a muscle. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
"I mean, Margarita mia, that you should feign a tenderness for him and let him think that it is I who would keep two loving souls apart.". From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
"Time you did," returned Joseph, pausing, ostensibly to shift the ladder from one shoulder to the other, but really to feign indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Because all she had to do was feign innocence and charge me with being oh-so-sensitive or can't-take-a-joke and suddenly I'm the crazy one. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Goldwasser: The Pain of the Best Friend Breakup] Reference
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