feigning injury
Pretending to hurt
Feigning injury is pretending to be hurt, typically to gain an advantage or avoid responsibility.
The phrase appears most often in sports, where players fake or exaggerate contact to draw fouls: The referee warned him for feigning injury.
Outside athletics, it suggests calculated deception—faking harm for sympathy, insurance claims, or to escape obligations.
- fakingSimulating something false
- taking a diveIntentionally losing a contest
- divingEntering water deliberately
- floppingFalling loosely, without control
- simulationImitation of real processes
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