noun
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a toy
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a person regarded or treated as a toy
he thinks she is just his plaything
Etymology
Origin of plaything
Example Sentences
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The pair are now reprising their roles from the 2018 movie in a new series seven episode called Plaything.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025
Although a big Black Mirror fan, Gribben hadn't seen Bandersnatch but says that coming to Plaything fresh actually aided his performance.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025
The pair are now reprising their roles from the 2018 interactive movie in a new episode called Plaything.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025
General Electric scientists demonstrated: X-Ray Farm— Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stranger! smile not at this little dome, Albeit quaint, and with no nice regard To highest rules of grace and symmetry, Plaything of art, it venture thus to stand 'Mid the great forms of Nature.
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde
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