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portraying
adjective as in representing
Strong matches
noun as in acting
Strong matches
Weak matches
- play acting
- showing off
Example Sentences
Don Cheadle, the sole nominee who was a newcomer to the Oscar competition, was competing for his performance as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina in “Hotel Rwanda,” while Johnny Depp had received his second lead actor nomination, this time for portraying author J.M.
As an actor, how did you approach knowing you’d be portraying Aaron from his high school years, then his football career and all the way through to his death?
In 2022, Williams reemerged into the cultural zeitgeist on “The Crown,” portraying Camilla Parker Bowles over the final two seasons.
After a video went on social media portraying him as a radical groomer endangering children with sexually explicit books, Frank Strong, a Texas teacher, received threats and became a target in a disquieting and toxic culture of rage and retribution shaped, he believes, by nearly a decade of Donald Trump’s political hold on the American imagination.
Then, during the Covid lockdowns, she began creating videos in which she voiced-over Nicola Sturgeon's media briefings, portraying the first minister as a plain-talking, occasionally foul-mouthed figure, exhausted by the demands of the pandemic and exasperated by the media's questions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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