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play-act
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 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
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Example Sentences
You frenetically play-act while you feel your soul is dying.
Rich people need to play-act their financial largesse, so we can hate them for it.
You're such a sinful old 'ypocrite, that you play-act before yourself, I do believe.
It had been helpful and even laudable to play-act the chief scenes when the story was beginning, but now they had no time.
I thought he could play-act the thing in his mind too well ever to be the thing itself.
I am merely vexed that you should play-act to me, and to Bezobiedoff, and to yourself.
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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to play-act, such as: be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do, and do a turn.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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