feigned

feigned
    adj 1: not genuine; "feigned sympathy"
    

Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feigned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Feigning}.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr.
   L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See
   {Dough}, and cf. {Figure}, {Faint}, {Effigy}, {Fiction}.]
   1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or
      actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form
      and relate as if true.
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            There are no such things done as thou sayest, but
            thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh.
                                                  vi. 8.
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            The poet
            Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and
            floods.                               --Shak.
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   2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to
      counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak.
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   3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Feigned \Feigned\, a.
   Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
   false. "A feigned friend." --Shak.
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         Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
         lips.                                    --Ps. xvii. 1.
   -- {Feign"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Feign"ed*ness}, n.
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         Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
         with her whole heart, but feignedly.     --Jer. iii.
                                                  10.
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   {Feigned issue} (Law), an issue produced in a pretended
      action between two parties for the purpose of trying
      before a jury a question of fact which it becomes
      necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill.
      --Bouvier.
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FEIGNED issue, pract. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or the 
direction of a court of equity, or such courts as possess equitable powers, 
to determine before a jury some disputed matter of fact, which the court has 
not the power or is unwilling to decide. 3 Bl. Com. 452; Bouv. Inst. Index, 
h. t 
    

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "feigned":
      affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
      brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
      distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
      factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fictitious, fictive,
      garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation, junky,
      make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck,
      pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy,
      simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious,
      synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine,
      unnatural, unreal, warped