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playing favorites

playing favorites is the present participle and gerund of play favorites.

Meaning of play favorites

Verb

play favorites (third-person singular simple present plays favorites, present participle playing favorites, simple past and past participle played favorites)

  1. To show favoritism towards one party.
    Synonyms:
    favoritize

Questions about playing favorites

What is playing favorites the present participle and gerund of?
Playing favorites is the present participle and gerund of play favorites.

Words near playing favorites in the dictionary

  1. playing doctor
  2. playing down
  3. playing dumb
  4. playing fair
  5. playing fast and loose
  6. playing favorites
  7. playing field
  8. playing fields
  9. playing fine
  10. playing first fiddle
  11. playing for love

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playing favorites (page history and authors); play favorites (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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