VERB
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perform on a stage or theater
He acted in `Julius Caesar'
She acts in this play
I played in `A Christmas Carol'
How To Use playact In A Sentence
- She could playact any way she wanted now, and people would more or less follow along. THE SAVAGE GIRL
- So gender is a kind of playacting? he has asked her once. Enowning
- He was more interested in playacting and over-reacting, something we thought he had taken out of his game years ago. The Sun
- She could playact any way she wanted now, and people would more or less follow along. THE SAVAGE GIRL
- (It is a perception that applies to changes taking place throughout the culture at the very moment, in the mid-1960s, when he was looking at those bricks — whether in Capote and Mailer's attempts to break down differences between fiction and reporting, or in Godard's movies, where we all became self-conscious watching films that felt like essays as much as narratives and seemed more playacted than acted.) An Eye on the Tremors
- Sometimes their emotions read more like playacting than real life; at others they scare you with their deadly intent. Times, Sunday Times
- This was not tourist playacting, but a community exploring its own talents without a shred of irony. Times, Sunday Times
- A man could get very confused from this kind of playacting — I don't know how you do it, Renoux. Mistborn
- 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.
- Here I was masquerading as a teacher, just as I'd playacted being an altar boy, or a civil servant, or a student. Broken Music, A Memoir