Definitions for feigns

feigns feign

Spelling: [feyn]
IPA: /feɪn/

Feigns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in feigns (efgins).

Definitions for feigns

verb (used with object)

  1. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of:
  2. to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.
  3. to imitate deceptively:

verb (used without object)

  1. to make believe; pretend:

Origin of feigns

1250-1300; Middle English fei(g)nen Old French feign-, present stem of feindre Latin fingere to shape, invent, feign

Examples for feigns

Give us a moment to feign excitement...TVLine Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy went trick-or-treating together.

He has no conception of what to do, and his folly is to feign folly.

Not the manners, which I could feign, nor the vices, which I could feel.

I could likely feign my way through a short story—a very short story—in Farsi.

But anyone who can feign a relationship for 40 days can surely do it for one meal.

Surely, he thought, no woman could feign the love she had shown for him.

They cannot feign ignorance at the end of a journey that was ugly all along.

At first she tried to feign astonishment and reply that she had heard nothing.

And you have to possess a certain amount of humility—or at least try to feign it from time to time.

Madame had never seen him so exasperated, and this illustrious nobleman was advised to feign a necessity for visiting his estates.

Word Value for feigns
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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