playact
Example Sentences
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In all her weary playacting, she had forgotten about ordering these things, but their arrival reminded her to get “back in character,” so to speak.
From Literature
In other scenes as other people, she flops about with the weird violence of a marionette playacting a vixen only to become that sex object after a blood sacrifice.
From Salon
That Bill's playacting is taken completely out of context and blown out of proportion doesn't matter.
From Salon
He laughs at the playacting that shapes everything he does.
From New York Times
Soon, the masked man barks orders, demanding they confront their failures as husband and wife — and that they playact as an old-fashioned family with the woman subservient to the man.
From Los Angeles Times
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