feint
Example Sentences
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The Danish director of “Drive” hasn’t made a feature film since “Neon Demon” premiered at Cannes in 2016 and this grim fairy tale feels more like a feint than a comeback.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Was the "two-week deadline" for negotations a feint?
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025
Perhaps this is a feint in some grand art of the deal.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2025
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
I should perhaps have found gratifying a little more polite resistance to my observation, but he offered no feint; he denied not her favor and accepted his lot with alacrity.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing feint
The Lightning Thief
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The Hobbit
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