feint
Example Sentences
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They envision themselves bobbing and weaving, triangulating and feinting — filling the air with meaningless cliches so that no one knows where they stand and no one can hold them accountable.
From Seattle Times
There’s also something of a feint in the film’s title, which suggests a journey, or at least an endpoint.
From Washington Post
But Western officials warn that Moscow could try and divert Ukrainian resources through feints and deceptions — which could come from anywhere.
From New York Times
It’s a trick, in a way, or a feint, because in the final display, Kwong lets the orchid’s paradoxes explode into full view.
From New York Times
That was a feint that allows people to simplify and mask the oppressive apparatus of banks, corporations, police, courts and the prison system, all of which make diversity hires.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
