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play upon
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of PLAY
to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means <played upon the customer's vanity to convince her to buy the expensive makeup kit>
Related Words engineer, finagle, jockey, maneuver; beguile, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, shanghai, snow, take in, trick; intrigue, machinate, plot, scheme; arrange, contrive, devise, finesse, mastermind; cheat, chisel, con, defraud, fleece, gyp, hustle, swindle
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