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playacting
adjective as in affected
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adjective as in la-di-da
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- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
noun as in make believe
Strongest match
Strong matches
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Example Sentences
What of Liszt, with his cheap playacting, his incurable lasciviousness, his plebeian warts?
At this point her cogitations were interrupted and her playacting spoiled by the unexpected return of mother and Aunt Nettie.
Snap out of that playacting and tell me what you are doing here!
With the same blow, and amongst the same playacting, they have nearly disarmed their adversaries.
Even here his so-called honor is little more than a form of playacting, both maudlin and dishonest.
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On this page you'll find 117 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to playacting, such as: assumed, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, and feigned.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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