play-act
verb
(intr) to pretend or make believe
play-actor
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a word derived from
play-act.
Example Sentences
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"Ef you think I'm agoin' to put on play-actor clothes an' go round lookin' indecent, Phœbe Wise, why, you're mistaken—'cause I ain't—so there!"
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
He therefore hurried Bensley to an unfrequented coffee-house, where he asked him very seriously, "Hoo could ye disgrace the corps by turning a play-actor?"
To see that hold man made hup with them rings and whiskers, like a robber or a play-actor!
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
His play-actor passion had bettered him, if it had not accomplished the impossible and transmuted the pirate of body into the pure of soul.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
As to being a play-actor, confound it, I hate the very word; you need not think anything about your size.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
