All feint synonyms
feint
F f noun feint
- pretense β pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- ruse β a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- pretext β something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
- duck β any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- ploy β a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- imposture β the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- dodge β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- maneuver β a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- play β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- bluff β A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- wile β a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- deceit β Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
- snare β one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- distraction β the act of distracting.
- shift β to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- trick β a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- stall β a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- subterfuge β an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- make-believe β pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- sham β something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- gambit β Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
- blind β Someone who is blind is unable to see because their eyes are damaged.
- stratagem β a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
- bait β Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- artifice β Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- hoax β something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- pretension β the laying of a claim to something.
- manoeuvre β a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- pretence β pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- expedient β (of an action) Convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral.
verb feint
- fence β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.