feint

Example Sentences

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Again, no storming, no lunging, not even a feint.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

Was the "two-week deadline" for negotations a feint?

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

It's a feint, an effort to scare his opponents into believing his ascension is unstoppable, so they stop fighting him.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2023

Lamm slipped in another feint, which was to raise the question of whether Greenblatt is sufficiently engaged with Jewishness to merit a defense from antisemitism.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2023

That was a feint, designed to catch the opponent offguard.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou