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Exact Match:

feint

any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)

deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"

Synonyms:

• acting,
• aerial tactics,
• affectation,
• airborne tactics,
• alibi,
• apology,
• appearance,
• applied tactics,
• armored tactics,
• art,
• artful dodge,
• artifice,
• attitudinizing,
• bag of tricks,
• barrier tactics,
• befooling,
• blind,
• bluff,
• bluffing,
• bosey,
• catch,
• cavalry tactics,
• cheat,
• cheating,
• chicanery,
• chouse,
• cloak,
• color,
• coloring,
• commend,
• compliment,
• congratulate,
• conspiracy,
• contemn,
• contrivance,
• counterfeit,
• coup,
• cover,
• cover story,
• cover-up,
• craft,
• curve,
• curve-ball,
• cut,
• cute trick,
• deceit,
• deception,
• defensive strategy,
• delusion,
• design,
• device,
• dirty deal,
• dirty trick,
• disguise,
• dissemblance,
• dissembling,
• dissimulation,
• distraction,
• diversion,
• dodge,
• encirclement,
• excuse,
• expedient,
• facade,
• face,
• fake,
• fakement,
• fakery,
• faking,
• false air,
• false front,
• false move,
• false show,
• falsity,
• fast deal,
• feigning,
• felicitate,
• fetch,
• ficelle,
• fire tactics,
• four-flushing,
• fraud,
• front,
• gambit,
• game,
• gilt,
• gimmick,
• gloss,
• googly,
• grift,
• guise,
• handle,
• hoax,
• hocus-pocus,
• home thrust,
• hoodwinking,
• humbug,
• humbuggery,
• imposture,
• infantry tactics,
• infiltration,
• intrigue,
• investment,
• jab,
• jig,
• joker,
• juggle,
• jugglery,
• knavery,
• lame excuse,
• little game,
• locus standi,
• lunge,
• make-believe,
• maneuver,
• mask,
• masquerade,
• meretriciousness,
• mob tactics,
• mobile tactics,
• move,
• ostensible motive,
• ostentation,
• outward show,
• pass,
• pincers movement,
• play,
• playacting,
• plot,
• ploy,
• poor excuse,
• pose,
• posing,
• posture,
• pretense,
• pretension,
• pretext,
• protestation,
• public motive,
• put-off,
• racket,
• recommend,
• red herring,
• refuge,
• representation,
• resort,
• ruse,
• salute,
• scheme,
• screen,
• scurvy trick,
• seeming,
• semblance,
• sham,
• shift,
• shock tactics,
• show,
• simulacrum,
• simulation,
• sleight,
• sleight of hand,
• sleight-of-hand trick,
• smoke screen,
• speciousness,
• stab,
• stalking-horse,
• stratagem,
• strategy,
• subterfuge,
• swing,
• tactic,
• tactics,
• thrust,
• trick,
• trickery,
• varnish,
• veil,
• whizzer,
• wile,
• wily device,
• window dressing