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• n  playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
• v  behave carelessly or indifferently
• v  manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
• v  engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously

• The first credible suggestion that alternate universes might exist came in the early 1950s when a young physics graduate student named Hugh Everett was toying with some of the more .
• Her toying seduction of him is as smoldering as it is funny.
• Some Democrats now wonder whether Grassley had been toying with them and particularly his good friend Baucus from the start.

• flirt
• flirting
• flirtation
• coquetry
• dalliance
• dally
• toy
• play
• fiddle
• diddle

News & Articles

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• Review: FGCU students serve up "peachy" adaptation of Roald Dahl classic
  I treasure Roald Dahl's children's fiction. I can recite detailed plots of four from memory. Thus, I approached FGCU TheatreLab's productionof Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach," with trepidation. If Hollywood has taught us anything, is is to be wary of toying with childhood. "The Smurfs" anyone?
  June 13, 2013 - Naples Daily News

Quotes

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• Graeme McDowell in SkySports
  We've been toying with ideas the last few days, trying to match the players together,said McDowell. "There's not a huge amount of obvious pairings that I can see. Maybe Henrik Stenson and Karlsson perhaps? Westwood and Garcia is obvious...
• Grant Barrett in Washington Post
  You search the blogosphere or even newspapers and you'll find a lot of references to it,said Grant Barrett, co-host of the nationwide public radio show "A Way With Words" and author of several slang dictionaries. "People are toying with...
• Joe Quesada in CNN
  We were toying with the idea of someone new taking over the mantle of Captain America,Quesada said by phone from his New York office. "But we kept coming back to Bucky. Not only because he seemed such an obvious choice but especially...