playacting

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.