16 adverbs to describe how to feigned

When slaves, the negroes were glad to find any excuse for deserting their labor, and they were incessantly feigning sickness.

Or he might rise up slowly and carelessly, and feign casually to discover the thing that breathed at his back.

But he courteously feigning to see none of the litter, she was put out.

Love's foe profess'd! why dost thou falsely feign Thyself a Sidney? from which noble strain 10 He sprung, that could so far exalt the name Of love, and warm our nation with his flame; That all we can of love, or high desire, Seems but the smoke of am'rous Sidney's fire.

And what a hypocrite am I, To feign forlorn, to 'plain and sigh!

Some in the earlier stages of the affair had hypocritically feigned sympathy, in order to provoke his confidence, and had then turned round to hold him up to execration and ridicule.

As a matter of fact he had been incommoded previously by loss of mind to the extent of having a guardian placed over his domain by Augustus; but at that time he was no longer weak-witted and was merely feigning, in the hope of saving himself by this expedient if by no other.

Now observewhether the writing is big, sprawling, thin, precise; feigned, obviously, in one case, natural, I think, in the other, all those four a's are the same!

Of a prince's life very minute incidents are known; and if any are too slight to be remarked, they may be safely feigned, for they are, likewise, too slight to be contradicted.

Real love of children and childhood is, however, a quality that no one can successfully feign.

" "Come, sir, this shamming will only increase your punishment;" but the imperturbable Duncan stretched himself lazily, gave a great yawn, and then awoke with such an admirably feigned start at seeing Dr. Rowlands, that Eric, who had been peeping at the scene from over his bed-clothes, burst into an irresistible explosion of laughter.

Garrow soon saw the struggle, and adroitly feigned sleep himself.

" That the admiration was not merely feigned because it was the fashion, here is the testimony of a woman of the finest taste, Madame de Sévigné, given in her intimate letters to her daughter, who, in these confidences, spared no one who deserved criticism: The king and all the Court are charmed with Esther.

In this moment of excitement it struck neither John nor Mary Annenor, indeed, herselfthat her manner, with its brutality, and its poorly feigned surprise, was the most revealing element in the situation.

"Will you?" he says, with a tone of eagerness and pleasure, which, if not real, is at least admirably feigned.

After the grandeur of the promenade, the street appeared shabby and third-rate; it had the characteristics of a side street; it was the retreat of those who could not afford anything better, and its base inhabitants walked out on to the promenade and swaggeringly feigned to be the equals of their superiors.

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