Deceive
Play
Play verb - To engage in activity for amusement.
Common collocations
| characters | deceive characters | play characters |
| world | deceive world | play world |
Both words in one sentence
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This increases competition between Regulars who go out of their way to play mind games with each other, lie, trick and deceive each other and often abandon friends and fight innocent people.
Source: Webcomic / Tower of God - A strip in Mac Hall has Ian accuse Micah of having character actors play the part of his parents, in order to deceive him from the fact that he may be an old man in disguise who has been stalking him all his life.
Source: Paid-For Family
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