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playact

verb

play·​act ˈplā-ˌakt How to pronounce playact (audio)
playacted; playacting; playacts

intransitive verb

1
a
: to take part in theatrical performances especially as a professional
b
: to make believe
2
: to engage in theatrical or insincere behavior
playacting noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Trixie advises Alma to playact highness to flummox E.B. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021 Today, this dynamic lives on in the form of Roblox strip clubs, where young people — mostly, minors — playact at adult sexuality. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2021 The world had first required her to playact as a man. Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020 Yona has it better than the locals who have agreed to playact, and likely die, in Mui’s fake new disaster. Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2020 In a twist, The Sims is now a way to playact not just an alternate life, but any life at all. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2020 One of the funniest answers to this question comes from the comedian Conner O’Malley, who has built a career playacting the way consumerism warps our spirits. Sam Anderson, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020 Cloud is almost childlike, a boy playacting at being a warrior and not always nailing the part. Julie Muncy, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020 Awkwafina contains multitudes, and Nora From Queens gets a kick out of putting the main character, already grappling with her place in the world, in situations that give her the opportunity to playact. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from playacting

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of playact was in 1856

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