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
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How To Use feint In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Have the dumb Democrats, who think that just because the United States established war policies at the Nuremburg Trials, they must follow them; ever heard of the boxing technique called a feint punch or the legendary chess move called the "ghost knight gambit"? "War Crimes" Memos Questioned
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