playact
Example Sentences
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Cable TV dresses up space aliens in he-man drag, making the subtext into text, the way Carlson’s tough talk and aggressive posturing playact a child’s idea of manliness.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2021
As a youngster, Brian liked to playact with the toys he made.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
Do today’s guests want a 19th-century stage set on which to playact high society?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016
Giving them authority over arbitrarily defined transgressors can prompt brutality, as the Stanford Prison Experiment—in which students were assigned to playact the roles of either guards or prisoners—showed in the 1970s.
From Time • Jan. 13, 2015
The two of them playact with each other, pretending to be cordial, but only so it will make the final betrayal even sweeter.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
