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View synonyms for play-act

play-act

verb

  1. intr to pretend or make believe
  2. intr to behave in an overdramatic or affected manner
  3. to act in or as in (a play)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈplay-ˌacting, noun
  • ˈplay-ˌactor, noun
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Example Sentences

You frenetically play-act while you feel your soul is dying.

Rich people need to play-act their financial largesse, so we can hate them for it.

You're such a sinful old 'ypocrite, that you play-act before yourself, I do believe.

It had been helpful and even laudable to play-act the chief scenes when the story was beginning, but now they had no time.

I thought he could play-act the thing in his mind too well ever to be the thing itself.

I am merely vexed that you should play-act to me, and to Bezobiedoff, and to yourself.

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