feint
Example Sentences
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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
In the third minute, she made a feint toward Gotham defender Jenna Nighswonger, then spun quickly the turf.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 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
This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity.
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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