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What is another word for
playacting
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Noun
Fake or overdramatic behavior
A theatrical performance using mime
An act of acting, performing or playing a role
Adjective
Unnatural or artificial in one's mannerisms or behavior
Verb
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to pretend to be someone else
Present participle for to make a performance of
Present participle for to act or perform a portrayal of
Present participle for to conduct oneself in a particular way
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▲
Noun
▲
Fake or overdramatic behavior
facade
front
show
pretence
UK
guise
charade
masquerade
act
pretense
US
pose
semblance
façade
disguise
airs
put-on
an act
a scene
veneer
mask
veil
appearance
false front
cloak
face
affectation
simulation
posture
false display
sham
cover
pretension
make-believe
dissimulation
illusion
display
posturing
air
deception
fakery
false show
exterior
look
impression
feigning
outward appearance
fake
artifice
smokescreen
gloss
schtick
bluff
false pretense
trick
false appearance
window dressing
subterfuge
impersonation
hoax
fabrication
image
faking
con
imitation
falsification
pretentiousness
screen
pageant
color
US
simulacrum
colour
UK
false colors
play-acting
parody
invention
travesty
stall
mien
role
posing
camouflage
dumb act
counterfeit
pretext
ruse
trickery
showing
public image
cover-up
deceit
misrepresentation
routine
shuffling
stunt
ostentation
insincerity
garb
evasion
acting
hokum
snivel
bearing
figure
attitude
disguisement
aspect
coloring
US
double-dealing
carriage
colouring
UK
covering
demeanour
UK
window-dressing
performance
dress
name
likeness
demeanor
US
claim
fig leaf
red herring
smoke screen
suggestion
effect
expression
manner
countenance
farce
layer
mockery
character
falsehood
profession
fantasy
personality
identity
part
daydreaming
outward show
imposture
mummery
portrayal
excuse
personation
revel
masking
mannerism
delusion
self
blind
light
attitudinizing
stand
shamming
stance
put-up job
false colours
personage
person
dissemblance
form
phoniness
dreaming
beard
chaser
ploy
feint
hamming
phoney
UK
phony
US
dissimilation
approximation
persona
public face
assumed role
fakeness
frontage
pretending
sweet talk
soft soap
a put-up job
a put-on
shuck and jive
resemblance
similitude
alikeness
seeming
mood
similarity
affinity
aura
feel
feeling
fancy
imagination
unreality
self-deception
shroud
smoke and mirrors
presentation
humbug
layout
curtain
packaging
scheme
manifestation
cast
mantle
hood
arrangement
wraps
affectedness
artificiality
presence
manoeuvre
UK
stratagem
maneuver
US
whitewash
machination
snobbery
pretensions
inflation
grandiosity
superciliousness
shield
exaggeration
side
outward
shape
dissembling
snootiness
uppishness
outline
shade
lie
concealment
blanket
coverture
penumbra
pall
cope
outward form
airs and graces
going Hollywood
assumed manners
showing off
unnatural imitation
putting on airs
surface
shell
outside
organization
US
visage
outward display
mode
profile
mere façade
attractive appearance
costume
varnish
robe
coverup
disguising
closeting
eyewash
spectre
UK
specter
US
spectacle
bluffing
fraud
device
contrivance
move
smoke-screen
hoaxing
forgery
envelope
disposition
exposition
false face
regard
external appearance
jive
flimflam
expedient
dodge
wile
codology
kidology
jiving
snow
avatar
depiction
burlesque
sell
spoof
fiction
smoke
outward aspect
quality
putting on a front
assuming a front
arrogance
mere show
organisation
UK
public perception
public conception
property
deceptive mask
snow job
public impression
characteristic
flavour
UK
flavor
US
feature
essence
trait
complexion
atmosphere
ambience
tone
attribute
stamp
smell
spirit
more ❯
“Even here, his so-called honor is little more than a form of
playacting
, both maudlin and dishonest.”
Noun
▲
A theatrical performance using mime
mime
pantomime
mummery
acting
mimicry
caricature
characterization
imitation
impersonation
portrayal
rendition
charade
depiction
mockery
portraying
simulation
theatricals
play acting
dumb show
charades
stagecraft
dramatics
theater
US
drama
theatrics
theatre
UK
performance
stage
histrionics
dramaturgy
thespianism
improvisation
enacting
enactment
hamming
dramatizing
US
dramatising
UK
performing arts
the stage
amateur dramatics
performing
playing
boards
stooging
imitating
simulating
dramatic art
show business
playing a role
show biz
treading the boards
appearing on stage
showing off
thespian art
roleplaying
posturing
feigning
posing
role-playing
playing a character
assuming a character
Noun
▲
An act of acting, performing or playing a role
enactment
performance
acting
performing
playing
portrayal
staging
depiction
personation
representation
appearance
personification
impersonation
presentation
play-acting
acting out
Adjective
▲
Unnatural or artificial in one's mannerisms or behavior
affected
artificial
assumed
forced
pretended
strained
unnatural
contrived
overblown
overdone
simulated
stiff
fake
feigned
hollow
insincere
labored
US
laboured
UK
mock
overripe
overworked
pseudo
counterfeit
faked
mannered
phoney
UK
unconvincing
exaggerated
imitation
phony
US
pretend
superficial
bogus
mechanical
plastic
posed
pseud
stilted
factitious
false
posey
sham
spurious
affectated
awkward
conceited
counterfeited
fakey
fraud
ham
hammy
imitated
melodramatic
studied
put on
put-on
deceptive
fraudulent
hypocritical
wooden
snide
specious
two-faced
faux
ersatz
unctuous
fictitious
double
self-conscious
manufactured
lying
unauthentic
inauthentic
Pecksniffian
not genuine
fishy
cod
canting
constrained
duplicitous
double-dealing
make-believe
dissembling
left-handed
misleading
actorly
forged
pretentious
mealymouthed
pharisaical
professed
ostensible
theatrical
faithless
jivey
glib
oily
unreliable
feigning
not kosher
deluding
smooth
pharisaic
synthetic
quasi-
phoney-baloney
phony-baloney
grudging
smooth-spoken
smooth-tongued
backhanded
uneasy
mealy
jive
lip
pirate
wrong
purported
stagy
improvised
double-faced
Janus-faced
campy
unspontaneous
meretricious
elaborate
overwrought
fabricated
tortured
quasi
rigid
inflexible
bound
binding
conscripted
begrudging
stringent
coercive
forcible
virtual
not spontaneous
pseudonymous
self-styled
not real
not legit
uncomfortable
made-up
queer
copied
bland
assuming
captious
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
framed
Hollywood
plant
brummagem
bent
delusory
crock
delusive
suppositious
supposititious
won't fly
soft shell
rehearsed
leaden
so-called
nonnatural
imaginary
seeming
apparent
avowed
surface
invented
concocted
deceitful
adopted
bluffing
shammed
falsified
impostrous
charlatan
cheating
concealed
dissimulated
imposturous
dishonest
laborious
unrelaxed
planned
untrue
dummy
untrustworthy
untruthful
hokey
manipulated
fixed
recherche
voulu
staged
hypocritic
genteel
far-fetched
Tartuffian
Pharisaical
Pharisaic
overly planned
simpering
apish
camp
highfaluting
artsy
chichi
arty-farty
wannabe
stuck up
gone Hollywood
as it were
would-be
to all intents and purposes
substitute
dud
imitative
treacherous
mimic
replica
trumped-up
invalid
man-made
disingenuous
worthless
cynical
unreal
perfidious
disloyal
reproduction
mendacious
trick
facsimile
deceiving
dissimulating
hoax
made up
cooked-up
pseudo-
cooked up
copycat
shifty
sly
knavish
model
apocryphal
pinchbeck
toy
quack
reproduced
lacking sincerity
weak
bad
back-stabbing
trumped up
hollow-hearted
ungenuine
unqualified
dual
supposed
planted
non-existent
not what it is cracked up to be
alleged
nominal
ostensive
semi-
engineered
flimsy
unsound
adulterine
near
reported
cunning
underhanded
artful
beguiling
backstabbing
guileful
crafty
sneaky
foxy
tricky
double-crossing
devised
fallacious
pirated
insignificant
falsie
copy
duplicate
set up
non-natural
devoid of validity
indirect
hyped up
double dealing
ironic
ambiguous
dubious
equivocal
paradoxical
cryptic
enigmatic
sardonic
null
uncertain
nonbinding
inoperative
null and void
void
illegal
nonvalid
double-meaning
double-edged
not binding
uncollectible
nugatory
underhand
devious
slippery
unfaithful
slick
evasive
ambidextrous
not candid
not frank
with tongue in cheek
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
simulating
feigning
faking
shamming
affecting
pretending
dissembling
assuming
imitating
acting
counterfeiting
bluffing
professing
posing
playing
aping
copying
doing
fabricating
mirroring
reproducing
lying
misrepresenting
parroting
disguising
concocting
prevaricating
equivocating
inventing
pirating
deceiving
cheating
creating
exaggerating
featuring
resembling
suggesting
putting on
passing for
putting on an act
giving the appearance of
acting like
acting out
knocking off
doing like
taking off
conjuring up
doing a take-off
mocking up
going through the motions of
masquerading
making out like
play-acting
putting up a front
posturing
impersonating
playing at
putting on airs
doing a bit
contriving
portraying
making like
mimicking
putting on a front
purporting
aspiring to
making a show of
making a pretence of
assuming the role
making as if
playing the part of
laying it on thick
adopting
striking
pulling
taking on
representing
passing oneself off as
fooling
faking it
playing the part
acting as if
acting as though
letting on like
showboating
attitudinizing
grandstanding
fronting
hamming
striking a pose
striking an attitude
passing off
assuming an attitude
disguising yourself
copping an attitude
behaving affectedly
showing off
taking off as
putting it on
making up
hamming it up
dissimulating
kidding
playing possum
falsifying
malingering
misleading
four-flushing
shucking and jiving
putting on a false front
going through the motions
mocking
hoaxing
dittoing
deluding
mimeoing
defrauding
forging
swinging the lead
devising
messing
putting up a front of
spoofing
going like
pretending to have
claiming falsely
faking out
exhibiting
making show of
putting on act
giving appearance of
professing to have
putting on a false display
seeming to be
posturing as
displaying
pretending to be
hiding
concealing
masking
cloaking
veiling
embodying
developing
whitewashing
camouflaging
stonewalling
shrouding
personating
becoming
showing
pussyfooting
covering
making out
doubling as
turning into
coming to have
laying on
letting on
dressing up
covering up
putting up a smoke screen
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to pretend to be someone else
impersonating
imitating
mimicking
acting
doing
aping
playing
parodying
mocking
caricaturing
personating
representing
copying
faking
satirising
UK
satirizing
US
burlesquing
spoofing
travestying
enacting
dittoing
lampooning
mirroring
monkeying
embodying
posing as
masquerading as
pretending to be
passing oneself off as
making like
taking off
sending up
acting like
professing to be
passing off
doing an impression of
purporting to be
taking the part of
acting out
putting on an act
making fun of
representing oneself as
assuming character
acting a part
playing a role
doubling as
dressing as
simulating
pretending
attitudinizing
posturing
masquerading
posing
disguising as
passing as
masking as
passing for
faking being
disguising yourself
making as if
passing yourself off
disguising oneself as
making like a
assuming the character of
feigning
affecting
shamming
assuming
putting on
setting oneself up as
assuming the identity of
feigning the identity of
dissembling
bluffing
giving the appearance of
assuming the role of
going through the motions of
making out
playing at
dissimulating
reflecting
repeating
falsifying
doing an impression
doing likewise
following in footsteps
modeling after
patterning after
playing a part
trying to be like
doing like
purporting
kidding
misleading
putting it on
faking it
putting on a front
claiming falsely
faking out
putting up a front
shucking and jiving
going through the motions
putting on a false front
describing as
presenting as
claiming to be
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a performance of
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
exaggerating
overstating
embellishing
magnifying
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
amplifying
overdoing
embroidering
overplaying
inflating
hyperbolizing
coloring
US
colouring
UK
elaborating
overstressing
aggrandizing
catastrophizing
heightening
performing
gilding
acting
burlesquing
melodramatizing
presenting
staging
executing
producing
sensationalising
UK
sensationalizing
US
showing
splashing
laying it on thick
blowing up
blowing up out of all proportion
touching up
playing up
dressing up
hamming it up
hams up
play-acting
making a big thing out of
expanding on
laying on
laying it on
making a production of
playing to gallery
playing to the gallery
making a performance of
giving color to
playing on heartstrings
treading the boards
strutting one's stuff
appearing on stage
overestimating
making a mountain out of a molehill
padding
overdrawing
stretching
building up
expanding
enlarging
laying it on with a trowel
fudging
emphasizing
US
boosting
exalting
puffing
enhancing
pyramiding
emphasising
UK
overdramatizing
putting on
making too much of something
making a big thing of
making a federal case of
making a production out of
overvaluing
intensifying
misrepresenting
misreporting
bragging
boasting
lying
fabricating
misquoting
hiking
overrating
belabouring
UK
piling it on
elaborating on
stretching the truth
belaboring
US
blowing something out of all proportion
blowing out of proportion
drawing the long bow
making a big thing about
distorting
falsifying
overselling
overpitching
romanticizing
US
corrupting
puffing up
upping
overstating the case
overexaggerating
caricaturing
making a mountain out of
scamming
romancing
romanticising
UK
emphasizing too much
adding colour
laying it on with a shovel
giving someone a sob story
shooting a line
drawing the longbow
cooking up
going to extremes
prettying up
loud talking
piling it on about
laying it on thick about
bigging up
making a drama out of a crisis
laying it on with a trowel about
stressing
laboring
US
labouring
UK
attaching too much weight to
laying too much stress on
dwelling on
going on and on about
attaching too much importance to
going over the top about
harping on
augmenting
increasing
swelling
escalating
extending
overusing
overworking
spreading
filling
widening
maximizing
US
ballooning
bloating
maximising
UK
overembellishing
overreaching
hyping
overloading
fleshing out
piling on
pumping up
driving up
beefing up
swelling up
making federal case
going overboard with
talking big
going overboard
going too far
making a big deal out of something
making a thing of
making a thing about
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act or perform a portrayal of
rendering
performing
acting
characterising
UK
characterizing
US
playing
depicting
executing
personating
portraying
presenting
representing
doing
emoting
enacting
imitating
impersonating
manifesting
personifying
staging
displaying
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
evincing
exhibiting
hamming
mimicking
producing
showing
acting out
interpreting
appearing as
hamming it up
playing the part of
appearing
mounting
putting on
going on
achieving
appearing in
carrying out
play-acting
playing a gig
treading the boards
pretending to be
reading a part
masquerading as
taking the role of
taking the part of
being
posing as
starring as
acting the part of
role-playing
adapting
playing out
playing a part
working out
working through
imagining
reenacting
imaging
picturing
improvising
miming
parodying
burlesquing
taking part
coming on stage
coming onstage
taking part in
putting on an act
playing act
turning into a play
giving a recitation
saying a poem
reciting
offering
giving
adapting for the stage
presenting as a play
putting into dramatic form
turning into a film
doing a turn
doing a number
bringing down the house
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to conduct oneself in a particular way
doing
acting
behaving
comporting
performing
acquiting oneself
appearing
bearing
carrying
conducting
deporting
discoursing
enacting
operating
personating
playing
portraying oneself
seeming
bearing oneself
comporting yourself
conducting oneself
conducting yourself
deporting oneself
muddling through
staggering along
coming on like
rendering the role
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