feint
Example Sentences
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The gimmicks are effective, though a bit of a feint.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 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
Some bartenders pour you a drink then ignore you, circling back with the check and a feint at sincerity, hoping for a big tip.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 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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