play-act

verb

1. intr to pretend or make believe
2. intr to behave in an overdramatic or affected manner
3. to act in or as in (a play)

Derived Forms

• ˈplay-ˌacting, noun
• ˈplay-ˌactor, noun

Example Sentences

You frenetically play-act while you feel your soul is dying.

From The Daily Beast

Rich people need to play-act their financial largesse, so we can hate them for it.

From The Daily Beast

You're such a sinful old 'ypocrite, that you play-act before yourself, I do believe.

From Project Gutenberg

It had been helpful and even laudable to play-act the chief scenes when the story was beginning, but now they had no time.

From Project Gutenberg

I thought he could play-act the thing in his mind too well ever to be the thing itself.

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I am merely vexed that you should play-act to me, and to Bezobiedoff, and to yourself.

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