All feinted synonyms
feint
F f verb feinted
- cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
- maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- sidestep — to step to one side.
- outwit — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
- parry — to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
- baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
- foil — to cover or back with foil.
- stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
- quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- duck — 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.
- hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
- feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
- tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- fenced — 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.
noun feinted
- tricked — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- maneuvered — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- dodged — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- baited — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- cheated — to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance.
- ducked — to stoop or bend suddenly; bob.
- faked — 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).
- pretensioned — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) before the concrete is poured. Compare posttension (def 1).
- snared — a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- stalled — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.