0 to hide your feelings from other people, or to entertain them, by deliberately behaving in a way that does not represent your true feelings:
He knew she wasn't play-acting.
Children sometimes play-act their idea of what an adult might do.
You don't have to play-act anymore.
Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade.
It was no good, she couldn't play-act indifference any longer.
It forces the actors to regress to when they would play-act as kids or do minimalist theatre.
The agitation of recent weeks would then actually have been nothing but play-acting.
One form this can take is neglecting real problems in order to go play-acting at the solution of imaginary ones or those totally outside the scope of local government power.
We are play-acting in this debate.
