feign

Object

• unconsciousness: Matt feigned unconsciousness, and was checked for ABC ( airway, breathing, circulation ).
• indifference: Feigning indifference, she plays the coquette's cheapest trick.
• madness: Interesting article about a cycle of folk tales about feign madness, associated with the village of Gotham in Nottinghamshire.
• insanity: On graduation in 1984 he went to work as a prison officer, only escaping from a life contract by feigning insanity.
• ignorance: I think she'd feign ignorance ( I would ).
• innocence: Reaching the height of ruthless ambition is achieved by feigning innocence.

Infinitive complement

believe: My darling had told her that I was her cousin, and Laura feigned to believe it.

Adjective complement

dead: So Panaumbe, having first seized hold of a good bludgeon, feigned dead.

Modifying Another Word

• then: The KDG rode toward the enemy and then feigned a retirement.
• not: Her madness, unlike Hamlet's antic disposition, is real, not feigned, her gentle soul having collapsed under stress.
• even: At fourteen I even feigned illness to watch World Championship Bowls instead of going to school.
• simply: I would simply feign an inability to decide which of two playthings I really wanted.
• also: Jack also feigns ' disgust ' at the attention his team-mate Stevie Convery has been recently receiving from the press... .
• n't: Do n't feign incompetence around the house in some feeble attempt to get her to " do it for you " .