0 an attempt to hide your feelings from other people, or to entertain them, by deliberately behaving in a way that does not represent your true feelings: --
Don't take any notice of him - it's just play-acting.
We are play-acting in this debate.
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.
There certainly is not any play-acting.
The agitation of recent weeks would then actually have been nothing but play-acting.
It is largely a bit of play-acting.
Of course, it was all play-acting.
There is no question of play-acting.
We should have no truck with pretence and play-acting.
