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Toying   /tˈɔɪɪŋ/   Listen
Toying

noun
1.
Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest.  Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting.



Toy

verb
(past & past part. toyed; pres. part. toying)
1.
Behave carelessly or indifferently.  Synonyms: dally, flirt, play.
2.
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.  Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, play.  "Don't fiddle with the screws" , "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
3.
Engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously.  Synonym: play.  "Play the stock market" , "Play with her feelings" , "Toy with an idea"



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"Toying" Quotes from Famous Books



... of decision and bravely crossed the room. Martha was seated upon the davenport, nervously toying with her fan. He saw with misgiving that she evidently expected something was going to happen. Her ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

... a complacent smile, toying with his gold chatelaine, "I really could not have visited you sooner, under the circumstances in which ...
— The Maidens' Lodge - None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) • Emily Sarah Holt

... toying with his fourth meal since sunset, and admitted that he was ready for anything rather than spaghetti ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

... but it passed. She was wonderfully pretty, all admitted, in her gown of a rich amber satin draped with delicate folds of black lace; around her white throat a diamond necklace glistened. How well I can remember her as she stood there toying with a button of her glove! And how mean and dowdy we all looked ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... and irresolute; but she smiled, and swept her fingers over the bars of her bird-cage, toying with ...
— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson


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