diversion
misdirect
evasive
feint
detain
brushback pitch
shadowbox
defensive
distractionism
look off
bite
diversionism
red herring
bottle it
inconspicuously
upstage
countertactic
get in someone's hair
withdraw
deke
catch someone napping
antichemotaxis
smoke screen
smokescreen
ruse
artifice
watch one's back
antitaxic
ask for it
abience
unfocus
holding action
take the game to
scarecrow
stall
end run
zwischenzug
intermezzo
false attack
forbid
toe-dance
downregulation
power play
psychic numbing
keep one's head down
traverse
avoidant
dishearten
sabotage
counterstrike
elusion
close down
cut the ground from under someone's feet
dissemble
poker face
attention whore
eluding
slip
back away
deflect
ambush
ostrichism
counterbalance
incaution
stick to one's text
incautiousness
miscue
trap
counteract
countervail
distract
damn the torpedoes
threaten
mask
crying
neutralize
lying in wait
shots fired
ambuscade
DoS
Pickett's charge
Streisand effect
arrestingly
skate over
shirtfront
tactfulness
send to Coventry
counterreconnaissance
holler copper
repelling
antagonize
nonconfrontation
wag the dog
bat away
antisensationalism

English words for 'A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.'

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