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Meanings of playacting in English

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The performance of a part or role in a drama.

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        Usage of playacting in English
        1
        There might have been some playacting in it; Tom could not tell.
        Shadowland
        2
        Modo had dressed up in similar costumes while playacting with Mrs. Finchley.
        The hunchback assignments
        3
        And he had loved playacting -couldthat have been lost as well?
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        4
        Did your little playacting make you wish it could be real?'
        Shadowland
        5
        It is all a kind of playacting, which they perform with remarkable skill.
        The Child of the Dawn
        6
        Dr. Whittaker looked weary, but Anders wasn't sure that he wasn't playacting at remorse.
        Fire Season
        7
        I'll play my part. Never being sure what was real and what was playacting.
        Surrender to the will of the night
        8
        Maybe because-couldit be that the whole thing is just playacting on my part?
        Unfinished desires: a novel
        9
        He was playacting, so Jane relaxed, content that he wouldn't be scarred for life.
        Alexandra, gone
        10
        Not until he gets past this playacting foolishness and marries.
        Ruthless
        11
        That's going a bit far for playacting, isn't it?
        Servant of a dark god
        12
        Is this the end, I wondered, playacting to myself?
        The End of the Affair
        13
        Hecht saw nothing to suggest that anyone considered this playacting for the benefit of the Empress.
        Surrender to the will of the night
        14
        You will continue the playacting until the end.
        Helen of troy
        15
        To the Auld Licht of the past there were three degrees of damnation-auldkirk, playacting, chapel.
        Auld Licht Idyls
        16
        In fact, it occurred to him that the time for his playacting as a deity was past.
        Book Three: The Final Exodus
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        Playacting through the time