feign

Like everything else in the movie, it’s artifice that feigns at being fact.

When a press release informed me Howie had scheduled a brief homecoming, I feigned a news hook: If I could interview him by phone, I would write a feature about "Stuck Rubber Baby."

Ms Heer said Harris "feigned ignorance" by sending two messages to the victim asking what had happened.

Giving those seats to billionaires signals loudly that this is a new era of oligarchy, without even an attempt to feign allegiance to pre-Trump notions of government for and by the people.

“Oh, that? Don’t know what you’re talking about,” Texans tight end Dalton Schultz said, feigning ignorance before easing into a wide smile.