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  • verb Present participle of feint.

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Examples

  • Constantinople, a stronger than thou, send him hither and tell him of me, for in wrestling there are divers kinds of strokes and tricks, such as feinting and the fore-tripe and the back-tripe and the leg-crick and the thigh-twist and the jostle and the cross-buttock. "

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

  • Cooper was definitely on the defensive, feinting when Maggie snapped at him and rolling when she pounced.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Cooper was definitely on the defensive, feinting when Maggie snapped at him and rolling when she pounced.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • They start a mile apart, and advance on each other, taking advantage of cover, retreating, circling, feinting -- anything and everything permissible.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • Team Obama responded to the protest by feinting back to the center, if not the right, in the actual speech.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • Team Obama responded to the protest by feinting back to the center, if not the right, in the actual speech.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • Beyond feinting and several slowly delivered and ineffectual blows he did nothing save block and stall and clinch.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • Beyond feinting and several slowly delivered and ineffectual blows he did nothing save block and stall and clinch.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • Vance had no show whatever, as Del well knew, who played with him, feinting, attacking, retreating, dazzling, and disappearing every now and again out of his field of vision in a most exasperating way.

    CHAPTER 15 2010

  • Cooper was definitely on the defensive, feinting when Maggie snapped at him and rolling when she pounced.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

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