plaything

Speech parts

1. plaything - Noun

2. plaything - Adjective

Meaning

A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.

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Examples

Adams 2002 pp. 55, 56 The Victorian historian James Anthony Froude saw Robert Dudley as Elizabeth's soft plaything, combining "in himself the worst qualities of both sexes. Source: Internet

A poor girl in desperate need of saving who, unlike Forrest, goes out into the world and ends up as a tossed-around plaything who eventually dies of Aids? Source: Internet

Concerned for the family reputation, Torvald insists that she fulfill her duty as a wife and mother, but Nora says that her first duties are to herself and that she cannot be a good mother or wife without learning to be more than a plaything. Source: Internet

Kay Francis plays Belinda Warren, the trusting plaything of a titled Englishman (Patric Knowles) with an invalid wife. Source: Internet

You’re taking one of the prized entertainment assets of an old colonial empire and turning it into a plaything, using it to paint a victorious face on your particular brand of postmodern fossil-fuel royalty. Source: Internet

It was a failure because the whole point of the takeover wasn’t to have the GOP as a plaything or a jobs program for right-wingers, but to actually move the country rightward. Source: Internet

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