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play-acting
verb as in act
Weak matches
- be on
- bring down the house
- burlesque
- characterize
- do
- do a turn
- dramatize
- emote
- enact
- feign
- go on
- go over
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- lay an egg
- make debut
- mime
- mimic
- mug
- parody
- perform
- personate
- personify
- play
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- portray
- pretend
- put it over
- rehearse
- represent
- say one's piece
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- take part
- tread the boards
Example Sentences
Full-grown men play-acting at being hurt when absolutely nothing happened.
The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.
On the other hand, as William F. Buckley shrewdly observed, there was always a lot of sham and play-acting with Vidal.
While Don was play-acting at romance with Joan, his home life was becoming increasingly fraught.
The subject was date rape; the teaching model two actors on a stage, play-acting a sex scene.
At the time I looked on as at play-acting, rejoicing in the happy ending.
Now, Rusty, I want to have you do some more play-acting—only turn it around.
There's a drama in all this, if we only knew it, a panorama of human play-acting.
It made me smile again, tight as the corner was, to see the play-acting spirit creeping over him.
One would like to make a long chapter out of those play-acting evenings alone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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