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playing
adjective as in loose
adjective as in performing
Strong matches
noun as in acting
Strong matches
Weak matches
- play acting
- showing off
noun as in dalliance
Weak matches
noun as in enactment
noun as in recitation
Strong matches
Weak matches
- declaiming
- discoursing
- holding forth
- narrating
- soliloquizing
Example Sentences
It wasn’t just that Nessarose was played by a real person in a wheelchair, it was the additional fact that she was a Black wheelchair-using actress playing the character.
Disabled women in film can fall into the “pretty disabilities” trope – when a beautiful actress playing disabled appears able-bodied enough to still be perceived as desirable.
Democrats may have poor communication skills, but they’re even worse at playing political chess.
They’re so bad at it that a man convicted of multiple felonies is beating them, by playing checkers.
Lesher of Hueneme was surprised earlier this week when a band started playing at lunch time in his honor on campus.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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