Possible Clues:

• What troubles me is adult being affected
• Pretended to be encouraged, wasting time
• Pretend to be excited, wasting time
• Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping
• Fake news's ending with one smear having recently come in
• and 28: A lit-up emerald's phony -- it's an artificial stone
• Feigned, imitated
• Must I deal with one that's so pretending?
• Feigned