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Underplay   Listen
verb
Underplay  v. i.  
1.
To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
2.
(Card Playing) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.





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"Underplay" Quotes from Famous Books



... his common daily life Man is for ever seeking after harmony, in avoidance of chaos: he cultivates habits by the clock, he forms committees, governments, hierarchies, laws, constitutions, by which (as he hopes) a system of society will work in tune. But these are childish imitations, underplay ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Underplay" :   theater, overact, play, dramatics, act, card game, playact, roleplay, theatre, dramaturgy, underact


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