grey knight

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noun

informal an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clearCompare black knight, white knight

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How to use grey knight in a sentence

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him back.
‘Galavant’: A Drunken, Horny Musical Fairy Tale|Melissa Leon|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Scalise was a state representative old enough to remember the notoriety of Farrell and Knight from years before.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The handkerchief glimmered on the counter, more white than anything else in that grey dusk.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
The Spanish men-of-war, which were always painted white, had their colour changed to dark grey like the American ships.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton