Usually means: Performing actions in an insincere manner.
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  1. playacting: Merriam-Webster
  2. playacting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. playacting: Vocabulary.com
  4. playacting: Wordnik
  5. playacting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. playacting: Wiktionary
  7. playacting: Dictionary.com
  8. playacting: Rhymezone
  9. playacting: FreeDictionary.org
  10. playacting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. playacting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. playacting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Playacting)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of play-acting. [The acting of a play or plays; the occupation of an actor; dramatic performance.]

Similar:
playing, performing, acting, byplay, excogitate, retributory, meliorate, noesis, habiliment, encyclopaedism, more...

Types:
pantomime, mime, mimicry, charades, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, more, little, own, cheap, longer, political, conscious, spontaneous, significant

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Similar:
playing, performing, acting, byplay, excogitate, retributory, meliorate, noesis, habiliment, encyclopaedism, more...

Types:
pantomime, mime, mimicry, charades, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, more, little, own, cheap, longer, political, conscious, spontaneous, significant



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