shamming

• But the native bear was only shamming, and dashed straight to the waterhole without even replying to the surprised kangaroo. —  Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
• Why, a tanner is sixpence; and, as you were talking just now about crowns, it will be as well to tell you that those of our trade never calls them crowns, but bulls; but I am talking nonsense, just as if you did not know all that already, as well as myself; you are only shamming--I'm no trap, dear, nor more was the blessed woman in the book. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
• His fellow tippler may be shamming, as himself Pretending to look out of the tent, he twists his eyes away so far, that, from the front, little else than their whites can be seen. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
• We thought that they were shamming, and treated them like the rest. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
• "I knew you were shamming, and not ill at all. —  Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor

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