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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Out of pure deviltry, as it would seem, this girl ran away from her boarding-school in company with an unprincipled young play-actor, who afterward abandoned her.
From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
“Because I was a play-actor once,” he shouted, “when I was a sweet-and-twenty youngling.”
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
He had neither the jumping o’ a mountebank, nor the sliding o’ a play-actor, but there was an ease in his carriage which I never saw equalled.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
By the way, the skill of this play-actor seems to have been underrated on our stage.
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by William Poel
Carlyle, who was one of the keenest observers of men our time has produced, said: "Dickens's essential faculty, I often say, is that of a first-rate play-actor."
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
