feint

Example Sentences

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Again, no storming, no lunging, not even a feint.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

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

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

He let the man in black feint and dodge and try a hold here, a hold there.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman