1.  feign(v = verb.communication) affect, dissemble, pretend, sham - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
is one way to belie, misrepresent
Derived form noun feigning₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

2.  feign(v = verb.creation) assume, sham, simulate - make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
is one way to act, dissemble, pretend
Derived form noun feigning₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

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. [1913 Webster]
"There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart." [1913 Webster]
"The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods." [1913 Webster]

2.  To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. Shak. [1913 Webster]

3.  To dissemble; to conceal. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

feign, v.
1 tr. simulate; pretend to be affected by (feign madness).
2 tr. archaic invent (an excuse etc.).
3 intr. indulge in pretence.

Etymology:
ME f. feign- stem of OF feindre f. L fingere mould, contrive

VB  be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.