Brushed and Played

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Brushed adjective - Touched lightly in passing; grazed against.

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Played and brushed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Played" instead a verb "Brushed".

Nearby Words: brush, brushing

Played adjective - (of games) engaged in.

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Brushed and played are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brushed" instead a verb "Played".

Nearby Words: play, playful, player, playing, playable

Rick's alcoholism and Morty's constant brushes with death, which are usually played for laughs and brushed aside, are occasionally shown to weigh on them heavily.

Source: Western Animation / Rick and Morty
Although it's played tragically with Taro Namatame, who actually suspects something after the first murder, fails to convince the second victim, and is brushed off by the cops when he thinks he knows the next target; his story was crazy and he was being played by the real killer.

Source: Cassandra Truth
The effects department apparently thought the trope was being played straight because they had to be told, repeatedly, not to add a button beep/touch tone when Mal brushed dust off the camera lens with his thumb during one scene.

Source: Screens Are Cameras

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