Play-at Definition

verb

To pretend to be a different person while playing a game.

So we played at being pirates for a while.
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To give the impression that one is not working in a professional manner.
In my opinion, John only plays at being an author. He hasn't sold more than two magazine articles in as many months.
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Play-at Sentence Examples

  • Elsewhere the occasion tempted many to play at being king - Judas, son of Hezekiah, in Galilee; Simon, one of the king's slaves, in Peraea.

  • The British army is bound by His Majesty's Rules and Regulations to play at the Philharmonic pitch, and a fork tuned to a' 452.5 in 1890 is preserved as the standard for the Military Training School at Kneller Hall.

  • Destined by his father to the pursuits of trade, he was allowed, nevertheless, to indulge his fondness for music, and learnt to play at an early age on several instruments, his first teacher being the Tirolean composer, I.

  • But the common objection to the play at the time was that it was too natural and too devoid of striking incidents.

  • Their staff all play at least one racket sport, they even have two county badminton players.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLA

Words Ending With

TAT

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