feint

Example Sentences

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Perhaps this is a feint in some grand art of the deal.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2025

Hathaway fell for Paulo Garbisi's feint that opened space for Capuozzo to pop up from nowhere and tap down with a wonderful finish.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

On a metatextual level, the show is itself a masterful feint.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024

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