playact
play-act

Now, with the audience gone, Johnson would start thinking and stop playacting.

Whitney had been playacting the night she came here to him.

The men who came to see her would have to realize that she was not interested in playacting.

He put out his cigarette and this time dropped a lot of playacting as well.

Even from this distance he could tell their kiss wasn't playacting.

She seemed fascinated, and of course I was playacting somewhat.

And, despite the way things turned out, I don't believe she was playacting."

They're doing their own kind of playacting right now.

They playact at being husband and wife with merry abandon.

"They've been playacting at something that's sacred to another people."

I told you, we do not allow playacting here!

You're an international journalist and you can't playact to get things done?"

I called to her, trying to make contact, but our deal was done and Love wouldn't playact a meaningful goodbye.

Ahead lay a major piece of playacting, which, if it failed, would ruin the evening.

She had been very friendly toward him the last few weeks, in ways a chen would hate to think were just playacting.

"If I only knew whether you were truly naive or simply playacting!

I am just playacting, yet I appear more of a leader than you are.

"Shelby is so busy playacting it's hard to believe he's for real."

After all, this sort of playacting by a young and vivacious woman isn't unusual.

If Bellford were playacting, could she lead him on and draw out the truth?

Barcelona as I said before do playact a bit.

"I think all children love to playact," she said.

Unless, of course, she was merely playacting, which was possible.

Contemporary writers give ordinary people more credit for knowing the difference between real life and playacting.

You're much better at playacting than I ever knew."