play
noun
a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
playless
-
a word derived from
play.
Example Sentences
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But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless.
From Time Magazine Archive
We need but to trace back the history of the dull and brutish men of today, and find that they were the playless children of yesterday.
From The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
After forty-five years of the playless life of a serf to blighting seriousness, the wonder is that sourness had not entered to hopelessly curdle all chances for joyous living.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
During the first half of his stay here, his health was still further injured by continuing as he was in earlier childhood, "a playless daydreamer," and by a habit of almost constant reading.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
I had in my thought to speak of these new inhabitants as workers, but that word has in it too much of the suggestion of endless, hopeless, playless labor.
From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley
