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playing (upon)verbpresent participle of play (upon) to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious meansplayed upon the customer's vanity to convince her to buy the expensive makeup kit exploiting, manipulating engineering, finagling, jockeying, maneuveringbeguiling, bluffing, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, kidding, shanghaiing, snowing, taking in, trickingintriguing, machinating, plotting, schemingarranging, contriving, devising, finessing, mastermindingcheating, chiseling(or chiselling), conning, defrauding, fleecing, gypping, hustling, swindling |