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

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

I should perhaps have found gratifying a little more polite resistance to my observation, but he offered no feint; he denied not her favor and accepted his lot with alacrity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson