playacting
- a word derived from playact.
Example Sentences
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Between 2018 and 2021, McIndoe, now 25, went from state to state, playacting the role of radicalized cult leader pushing an absurd conspiracy theory—that, as he put it, “birds aren’t real.”
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2024
Within “Housekeeping’s” restless, naturalistic aesthetic, Stolevski crafts complex and poignant images, contrasting the playacting the couple is forced to do with their searing gazes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
What we need is a stable raft, not messy playacting.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2023
Online critics have slammed the job switchers as naïve, suggesting that they are playacting at poverty or taking blue-collar jobs from less educated people who need them.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
“It’s only for a month,” she said, not even playacting that she didn’t know what was wrong.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
