feigning

Ruth catches her husband gazing at a photograph of his first wife, Elvira, and feigns indifference.

Posing as an IT staffer to get access to the corrupt police commissioner who investigated his father’s case, Assane feigns offense when his credentials are questioned.

I bit my lip and feigned a smile, donned my heavy jacket, and re-strategized the entire week.

They already know the answer, but they know by feigning ignorance they can create all this debate about it.

The whole point of being a pageant queen is to trot around in your bikini to be ogled at while feigning sexual naiveté.

This was a short time after Obama released his birth certificate and when Trump was feigning a run for president.

They sense you tensing up at peculiar moments, acting skittish, laughing a little too hard, over-feigning outrage or surprise.

“They just said they would be in touch,” I replied, feigning disinterest.

Whether Madame Probasco was feigning or not, the outstanding fact was that the next experiments varied greatly in effectiveness.

While feigning to talk at their ease as they rode along, the nerves of both of our two friends were strung to the uttermost.

Almost immediately he encountered the keeper of the prison, gesticulating and feigning a violent anger.

Invite him to share it, but take none yourself, feigning sudden illness.

One of the weapons of her armoury was the feigning of anger, and few could stand upright before her wrath.