play false
Example Sentences
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It is as if the eye should conspire to cheat the hand, or the one hand play false to the other.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
No woman can play false to her heart and prosper.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
Now I tell you what will occur if you play false with me.”
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Parrish, Randall
That they might be considered a guard of honor rather than spies sent out to see that he did not play false never occurred to him.
From The Thunder Bird by Bower, B. M.
And how many are there who play false in life, less from the gain than the gratification of vanity!—a kind of diabolical pride in outwitting and overreaching those whose good faith has made them weak!
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
