play false

Verb

Meaning

conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

snow hoodwink smuggle sell out bamboozle let down lead by the nose snowing pull the wool over someone's eyes

Hypernyms

betray deceive lead astray

Examples

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie. Alan Paton

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

He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

play enough play ensemble play fair play fast and loose play favorites play field