Thesaurus results for FEINTS

feints 1 of 2

noun

plural of feint

as in bluffs

sports a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent The boxer made a feint with his right, then followed with a left hook.

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verb

present tense third-person singular of feint

as in disguises

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Noun

Trump made half-hearted feints to target Wall Street, through proposals like curbing defense contractor stock buybacks and foreign job outsourcing, but there’s been no real follow through on any of these policies. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026 There are neat little flicks, slalom runs, full-body feints, through balls. — New York Times, 10 June 2026 Scarpetta contains the standard allotment of feints and false leads. — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026 But Fogelman’s feints are so dependent on worn tropes that, in the three-part Season 2 premiere that is now streaming on Hulu, Paradise becomes not just predictable, but also kind of dull. — Judy Berman, Time, 23 Feb. 2026 The painting makes dozens of little feints like this, giving and taking away. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 The fight scenes are full of energetic darts and feints. — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025 Khamenei has made feints and tactical adjustments. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feints

Noun

Sugar maples, oaks and hickory trees turn the bluffs red, orange, and gold.

— Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026
The Latour influence stretched from European high society to the Artois brewing empire, before finally reaching the bluffs of Esparza.

— Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of bluffs

Verb

The film itself is about a Jewish woman who refuses the limits imposed on her mind and disguises herself as a man in order to study, and the parallel was impossible to miss.

— Debbie Millman, Time, 25 July 2026
In the text, Athena disguises herself as Mentor to guide Telemachus on his journey to Sparta.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026

Definition of disguises

Verb

The current acceleration in European EV sales - in the first half of 2026 EV sales rose about 40% to 1,220,890 (ACEA) compared with the same period last year - masks the overriding failure.

— Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
My hope is our offense will be unstoppable, while my defense mostly gets shredded over the middle but masks it with strip-sacks and interceptions.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of masks

Noun

The most entertaining of these is undoubtedly Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, who died in 1673, at the age of fifty, leaving more than twenty volumes of poems, plays, and essays.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
University of San Diego and Montana have offered Felli, who is a strong drive blocker on run plays.

— Dan Albano, Oc Register, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of plays

Verb

The heavy side part feigns an almost asymmetrical look, which offsets heaviness on the ends and frames the face in a fun way.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Below, Warren Zaire-Emery feigns a run towards his own goal to get on the blind side of a forward.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 June 2026

Definition of feigns

Noun

Social media platforms like Instagram may also have security settings to review devices that have access to your account.

— Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Unlike an Amazon Alexa smart speaker and other devices that wait for a command to activate, the ElliQ is designed to be proactive.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of devices

Verb

Despite its barely-there, filter-like effect, the four-in-one formula smooths, conceals, corrects, and camouflages all at once.

— Alyssa Morin, InStyle, 18 July 2026
Olivia Rodrigo knows the true magic of New York City lies in the way its pace camouflages public crash outs.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026

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