Meaning of feignful | Babel Free

Definitions

False; feigned.

Examples

“The bawd, all palsy-twitched, whose feignful glee, When he beholds her face upon the morrow, With sobered brain, will freeze his jollity To speechless horror, till he fain would borrow Thy veil, once more, to hide his young remorseful sorrow.”

“So feignful for its creator to flee in glee as the mighty vessel was capsizing before him.”

“Chief among these is his rejection of the possibility that subaltern groups can be complicit in the imaginaries that legitimise domination, and — concomitantly— the claim that acquiescence is only ever a feignful performance of an ideological script, and never a measure of some degree of consent.”

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