Synonyms for play up
play up

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1. play upverb

   Antonyms:
   play down

2. play upverb

   To misbehave

   Children who do not receive enough attention may begin to play up.

   Synonyms:
   act up

   Antonyms:
   play down

3. play upverb

   For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach.

   Antonyms:
   play down

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1. foreground, highlight, spotlight, play upverb

   move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

   "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"

   Synonyms:
   cozy up, sidle up, suck up, highlight, cotton up, spotlight, foreground, shine up

   Antonyms:
   background, play down, downplay

2. cozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck upverb

   ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior

   "She is playing up to the chairman"

   Synonyms:
   soak up, bootlick, sop up, cozy up, highlight, toady, draw, cotton up, shine up, absorb, take in, sidle up, kowtow, spotlight, suck, imbibe, truckle, take up, suck up, foreground, fawn, kotow

   Antonyms:
   play down, downplay, background

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1. Christopher Dearborn:

   They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.

2. Architect Carson Arthur:

   When you enclose a small space even more, you play up its coziness and make it intimate, something that’s hard to achieve with large spaces, this also takes it to the next level of feeling like an outdoor room.

3. Rachel Minyoung Lee:

   The report in Korean has characterized Kim's climb up to Mt Paektu on horseback as a new 'myth', and that, together with the images of him on a white horse, appear to have been designed to create maximum propaganda effect, which I believe media will play up in the days to come.

4. Read MoreIf McGregor:

   It used to irritate me the way certain narratives are spread and the way words are twisted, I had to just disengage from it, when I came into the game, it used to happen and I'd just laugh it off and play up to it and do my thing. Then it just kept up going on, on, and on. It got a little much and I reacted to disrespect. But no more.

5. Doug Jones:

   It’s important to play up the racial hatred as the genesis of this crime so people are reminded what hate can really do in our society, people need to understand that hate is more than screaming at people and racial slurs. It kills.