On Saturday, the official sent off Aberdeen's Charlie Mulgrew after Rangers opponent Kyle Lafferty had feigned a head injury as the pair confronted each other.

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Among Granirer's routines is a feigned phone conversation in which he unsettles a smarmy telemarketer.

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However, the visitors opened the scoring in the 22nd minute when Driver found Aguiar on the edge of the box and the Portuguese midfielder feigned before striking a low drive from 20 yards out past the helpless Ryan Esson.

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After witnessing several unsuspecting people open GotchaBoxes, Severance has noted a familiar pattern: baffled silence or feigned enthusiasm, followed, eventually, by laughter and relief.

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General Pinochet is awarded a symbolic Oscar by protesters who say he feigned sickness to avoid trial.

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As a result, these debates have become nothing more than exercises in feigned outrage.

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