Feint is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FEINT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a pretence
• make a deceptive or distracting movement, especially during a fight
• To make a feint, or mock attack.
• deceive by a mock action
• make a feint
NOUN:
• a deceptive or pretended blow, thrust, or other movement, especially in boxing or fencing
• a mock attack or movement in warfare, made in order to distract or deceive an enemy.
• sham attack meant to distract an opponent
• any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
ADJECTIVE:
• ruled with faint lines
• denoting paper printed with faint lines as a guide for handwriting.
• Feigned; counterfeit.
• That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
• A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
• printing term meaning ruled with faint lines
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a deceptive movement

Words related to FEINT

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Words that contain FEINT

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How to use FEINT in a sentence

• But at last Pennington closed in again, and, after a swift feint, tried to land the same short-rib blow.
• Farther south, on the Pilica, a German feint was in progress with the object of weakening the Russian defense in the north.
• On the other hand, I am perfectly well aware that this is only a feint.
• Still, as I said, it is a good feint, and it has made me curious.
• I write this, my dear Miss Howe, only for a feint, and to see if it will go current.
• The Princess, always impatient of unnecessary dissimulation, had not attempted to keep up the feint of the interesting invalid at Cimiez.
• There was part of the inside with many feathers to flavour the dish, and having no appetite, I did not enjoy it, but made a feint of so doing to please the good-natured cook.
• Dunois, at the same time making a feint of attacking in another quarter, arrived at the spot indicated with four thousand men.
• Donovan had illustrated many tricks to him, one of the best being a low feint with the left, followed by a right cross to the point of the jaw.
• But gaining nothing by the feint, he was forced to retire.
• With a careless feint of glancing over his shoulder, he tightened every muscle and leaped ahead.
• She hesitated, made a feint of going to the door only to hear what he wanted, and then went rustling down to him.
• Henceforth he must depend on fence, feint and guard, not on the downright sword-stroke.
• I stepped into the street, and as the horse approached I made a feint of stopping him.
• I shall throw out a regiment, a battery, and five companies of cavalry, to make a feint against their centre and left.
• Flanagan made another feint with the boot and lamp at the stairs, but stopped again in curious bewilderment, and rubbed his head.
• Over and over she makes a feint of illness to escape the noisy hilarity.
• The feint must be well made and no time lost afterward in getting the ball either to second or third, according to circumstances.
• The force under Cureton was to make a feint of attempting the ford.
• They made a feint all in a cluster together straight for the widest gap in the circle behind us.
• I saw him dodge, feint in the direction of the gates, then, as the crowd surged that way, run for the street-shrine across the square, slipping from recess to recess of the wall.
• The feint was made three times, and each time the rocks crashed together and bounded back.
• This was a mere feint, intended to create the impression that the whole British army would cross there.
• Then he made a valiant feint of earning his shilling by throwing out suggestions of temperance hotels in Russell Square and the Euston Road.
• But their feint failed, and when they did make a rush with their ram two or three of them were picked off.
• The earl, who had given instructions to his followers to make a mere feint of attacking, now blew the signal for the real onslaught.
• Another feint was made to draw attention from a heavy force of assailants creeping within twenty paces, under cover of smoke, to surprise the northwest blockhouse.
• A feint, a tap, a leap back, both sides desperately on the alert and wary.
• When they were alone again, Irene made a feint of scolding her for leaving her to entertain Mr.
• Buller proposed to occupy the ridge of Vaalkrantz with artillery, and after a feint attack on the Boer position on Brakfontein, to push through under cover of the guns.
• At noon the completion of the bridge was signalled to the feint attack.
• I have always regretted that feint of ours in going away and pretending to come back legally married, to save appearances.

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