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- verb Present participle of
playact . - noun
pretence - noun
overdramatic behaviour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the performance of a part or role in a drama
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Examples
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Stop and think about it a second, what qualifies a person that lives in a 'playacting' world to be smarter than these residents?
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Stop and think about it a second, what qualifies a person that lives in a 'playacting' world to be smarter than these residents?
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Chase most Gay guys do not have a lisp thing those who do that want to do so as some kind of playacting!
Think Progress » “Dogs aren’t born mooing, and people aren’t born gay.” 2006
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So gender is a kind of playacting? he has asked her once.
enowning enowning 2007
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So gender is a kind of playacting? he has asked her once.
Archive 2007-11-01 enowning 2007
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It was quite well done all-round--no weak links in the cast or direction--but what makes it worth $65 is Kline's performance as Falstaff, which is revelatory in the sense that it allows Shakespeare's words to shine through clearly without additional "playacting" on his part.
Fun at Lincoln Center. bradamant 2003
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It is all a kind of playacting, which they perform with remarkable skill.
The Child of the Dawn Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Ultimately, at 8 Hearts, there is an Event that is similar to the Marriage Event in the 1st Generation, although it is a 'playacting' event to some extent.
IGN Complete 2009
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Ultimately, at 10 Hearts, there is an Event that is similar to the Marriage Event in the 1st Generation, although it is a 'playacting' event to some extent.
IGN Complete 2009
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A man could get very confused from this kind of playacting — I don't know how you do it, Renoux. "
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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