play false

1. 1.

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

   “He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well”

   Synonymsbamboozlesnowhoodwinkpull the wool over someone's eyeslead by the nose

   Broaderdeceive

Questions about play false

What does play false mean?

play false means "conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end".

What is another word for play false?

Close synonyms include bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is play false a common word?

play false is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.