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feint

[ UK /fˈe‍ɪnt/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪnt/ ]
NOUN
  1. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
VERB
  1. deceive by a mock action
    The midfielder feinted to shoot

How To Use feint In A Sentence

  • I gave Isaac a dram to kep his heart up, and he sung and leuch as if he had been boozing with some of his drucken cronies; for feint a hair cared he about auld kirkyards, or vouts, or dead folk in their winding-sheets, with the wet grass growing over them. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
  • Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering. A PIECE OF STEAK
  • He also goes on to describe in many places in his book, the way in which a rapier was used in delivering multiple feints.
  • A feint can force your enemy to tie down huge amounts of forces to protect against an attack that never comes.
  • Vowed to take better care of your finances, bought one of those little red cashflow books, ruled into narrow blue feint columns, pledged to note in it your incomings and outgoings, create for yourself a budget?
  • Account should be taken at the same time of enemy methods of feints and other stratagems.
  • One of them was ours," the driver told him, and added knowledgeably, `That will have been a feint. LOHENGRIN
  • He taught me how to feint and pull back and right-hand counter-punch.
  • Striped in a tiger mask, he feinted across the counter at Melanie; she bit off an exclamation.
  • He snorted, lowered his head dangerously, made a feint charge at it; thundered to ano ther halt. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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