Crossword-Solution: FEINTS 6 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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FEINTS anagram FINEST, INFEST

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Boxer's tricks. 1 answer
Makes a pretense of 1 answer
Fencing ploys 1 answer
Fencer's tactics. 1 answer
Fake-outs 1 answer
Misdirecting moves 1 answer
Mock blows 1 answer
Dekes 1 answer
Deceptive fencing moves 1 answer
Mock movements 1 answer
Boxing ploys 1 answer
Mock passes 1 answer
Boxer's fake-outs 1 answer
Boxer's fake outs 1 answer
Appels, in fencing 1 answer
Movements intended to deceive. 1 answer
Pretended blows 1 answer
Pugilist's stratagems. 1 answer
Some military maneuvers 1 answer
Some subterfuge 1 answer
They may have you going the wrong way 1 answer
Tricks an opposing boxer 1 answer
Diversionary tactics 2 answers
Tricky maneuvers 2 answers
Boxing moves 2 answers
Deceptive moves 2 answers
Jukes 2 answers
Diversions 4 answers
Bluffs 4 answers
Deceptive maneuvers 4 answers
A PRETENDED INTEREST 10 answers
COUNCIL BLUFFS 10 answers
Dodges 10 answers
Pretends 13 answers
Dummies 15 answers
Deceptions 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FEINTS (5)

The next day the Greek priest returned from his mission to Aboo Goosh, but the “father of lies,” it would seem, had been well plied with the gold of the enamoured Sheik, and contrived to put off the prayers of the Christians by cunning feints.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
XXV Gradasso every thought and every deed Employs, Rogero to instruct and aid, That in the strife his champion may succeed; And teaches every sleight he has assaid: -- How best to manage sword and shield at need -- -- What strokes are feints, and what with vantage made -- And when he should tempt Fortune, when eschew -- Reminds him, one by one, in long review.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
Also, of which there is great need, that by keeping a vigilant eye on the skirmishers thrown out from time to time by the Party of Generals, they may see that their feints and manœuvres do not oppress the small defaulters and release the great, and that they do not gull the public with a mere field-day Review of Reform, instead of an earnest, hard-fought Battle.
Speeches of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens 2014
Unexpectedly, from among them emerged a genuine police-constable, before whom the dreadful brood dispersed in various directions, he making feints and darts in this direction and in that, and catching nothing.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1997
The enemy rallied and manoeuvred about in the old field for an hour, making several different feints of charging, but never coming in reach of Marion's fire, whose men stood firm at their post.
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion William Dobein James 1997

Quotes with FEINTS (3)

The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
Lysander saw that they were displaying all the timeworn and conventional feints and poor disguises of lovers meeting in a public place and hoping the real nature of their relationship would be invisible.
William Boyd Waiting for Sunrise
We will never understand our world until we have come to terms with its future: it is the age in which we live. The Cold War depended upon internal division in order to maintain itself. Behind its various feints, games and strategies lay a perception of behavior as a form of enforced conformity. People would only do what they were prompted to do. This was the thinking that held the lonely crowd together, briefly connecting the forward thrust of material progress with the broader evolutionary curve.
Ken Hollings Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 49 times in crossword archives (1958–2025).