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" I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
Mary Harris Jones

Meaning of "play false" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLAY FALSE

play false


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLAY FALSE

play a lone hand · play a part · play along · play ball · play box · play by ear · play cat and mouse · play clothes · play down · play fair · play fast and loose · play favourites · play for time · play God · play hardball · play havoc · play hell with · play into the hands of · play merry hell with · play off

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLAY FALSE

convulse · dulse · else · expulse · false · grilse · halse · impulse · keep one´s finger on the pulse · monopulse · nerve impulse · on impulse · or else · pulse · repulse · ring false · salse · something else · specific impulse · valse

Synonyms and antonyms of play false in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «play false» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLAY FALSE

Find out the translation of play false to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of play false from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «play false» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

玩假的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

jugar falsa
570 millions of speakers
en

English

play false
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

झूठी खेलने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لعب كاذبة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

играть ложным
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

jogar falso
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা খেলা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

trahir
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Bermain palsu
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

spielen falsch
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

偽遊ぶ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

거짓 재생
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Muter palsu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chơi giả
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான விளையாட்டை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

खोटे चालवा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Sahte oyna
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

gioca falso
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

grać fałszywe
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

грати хибним
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

joacă fals
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παίζουν ψευδή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

speel valse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spela falskt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spille falsk
5 millions of speakers

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Mary Harris Jones
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAY FALSE»

Discover the use of play false in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to play false and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Flash 8 Cookbook
After you've used a stop( ) action, be aware that unless you create another script restarting playback — on a button, for example — there is not necessarily a way for the user to get the movie to play again. t Users have some control over ...
‎2006
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Learning Flash Media Server 3
songStream.play("mp3:Fever", 0, −1, false); this.songStream.play("mp3: PieceHeart", 0, −1, false); } } }; Client.prototype.stopPlay = function(songsNow) { this.songStream.play(false); trace("All play has stopped."); }; }; By selecting which group of ...
William Sanders, 2008
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Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children
Importantly, in both studies the role play-false belief relationship held even after controlling for age and verbal abilities. Likewise, Lalonde and Chandler (1995) reported that another potential confounding variable, good social skills (e.g., ...
Bernard Spodek, Olivia N. Saracho, 2014
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Roget's Thesaurus:
dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect &c. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes ...
Dr. Peter Mark Roget
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Science, Order and Creativity Second Edition
Most people, however, tacitly suppose that they do not have the necessary passion and courage to act in a truly creative way and are doomed to forever “ play false” with the more subtle features of their knowledge. They believe that, not being ...
David Bohm, F. David Peat, 2014
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The Complete Concordance to Shakspere: Being a Verbal Index ...
ii. 1 for love to lie and play on — It. 3 methinks, I play a* I have seen — iv, 3 as if the scene you play, were mine .. — Iv. 3 I see the play so lies, that I — iv. 3 thou play false, 1 do digest the.. Comedy of Err. ii. 2 Dromio, play the porter well — li.
Mary Cowden Clarke, 1847
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Science, Order, and Creativity
Most people, however, tacitly suppose that they do not have the necessary passion and courage to act in a truly creative way and are doomed to forever " play false" with the more subtle features of their knowledge. They believe that, not being ...
David Bohm, F. David Peat, 2000
8
Theory in Context and Out
Measures of False Belief, Pantomime, and Pretend Play False-belief tasks Three measures of false belief were administered to each child using puppets. The first task was based on a procedure described by Bartsch and Wellman (1989), the ...
Robert Stuart Reifel, 2001
9
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duell
dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect &c 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes ...
John Donne, William Henry Draper, Izaak Walton, 1926
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
dis-semble, -simulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum ; play -false, — a double game; coquet; act —, play- a part; affect &c. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are ...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAY FALSE»

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Sri Nisargadatta: The Buddhist's Favorite Hindu
You have to be very alert, or else your mind will play false with you. It is like watching a thief – not that you expect anything from a thief, but you ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
2
A very French July 14 in Moscow, with Isabelle Huppert and Louis …
In Moscow to star in five performances of the stage play False Admissions by Pierre Marivaux at the Mossovet Theater, Isabelle Huppert and ... «Unifrance Films, Jul 15»
3
Should this striker choose Arsenal over Manchester United?
Surely if you're going to play false 9 – especially in the Premier League where teams are powerful and will take no prisoners – you need a ... «FootballFanCast.com, Jul 15»
4
D-Day hero dies aged 95: First Briton parachuted into France ahead …
Their job was to distract German troops with amplifiers used to play false combat noises. The next day more than 155,000 Allied troops ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Redefining Sexual Sin Won't Make a Wrong a Right
When we de-list certain sins from God's catalog of transgressions, not only do we play false with His Word but we debase the very heart of the ... «Christian Post, Jun 15»
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'Far From the Madding Crowd' is a refreshing take on a classic
... makes Bathsheba a woman with no need for a husband that she threatens to make Hardy's happy ending—a rarity for him—play false. «Las Vegas Weekly, May 15»
7
The Changeling, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, review: Morahan …
The audience, in on it all, get the considerable pleasure of watching someone play dumb, play dirty, play false. Morahan makes us complicit: ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
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The Changeling, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: Hattie Morahan stars …
The audience, in on it all, get the considerable pleasure of watching someone play dumb, play dirty, play false. Morahan makes us complicit: ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
9
Death ends the life but not the glory of young Phillip Hughes
... be close to be touched nor so affected. Grief can never play false. Now follows the period of adjustment. Warwick McFadyen is a senior writer ... «The Age, Dec 14»
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Euro 2016 qualifying: Everything you need to know about Israel …
The biggest star of the team is Eran Zahavi from Maccabi Tel Aviv, an explosive midfielder who can play False 9 and is especially known of his ... «WalesOnline, Nov 14»
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