Type of child's play

Usage examples of makebelieve.

Bana and another male Ober had started a makebelieve fight just as the guard walked by the window on his ten-minute routine pass.

An awful lot of makebelieve went on about that sort of thing involving a lifelong slur with the usual splash page of gutterpress about the same old matrimonial tangle alleging misconduct with professional golfer or the newest stage favourite instead of being honest and aboveboard about the whole business.

As they threaded their way through the narrow, makebelieve streets, Peter had an impression of ancient dates 295 HOTEL and names.

In their stained peignoirs, in their green stockings and melon-colored drawers they drifted through the smoky oil light like makebelieve wantons, at once childlike and lewd.