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What does toy with mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word toy with? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To handle something in a careless or frivolous manner (toying with someone's feelings).
  2. To play, especially with or as with a toy.
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Why did fate like to toy with their puppet strings so often, taking joy to their misery?
By that point, however, the audience is accustomed to lurid details that toy with the established presentations of the play.
Andrew raised his eyebrows, but his eyes didn't stray from his own face as he continued to toy with his hair.
He felt dead and dull inside, like an electric toy with the batteries removed.
You have become so much a part of the scenery that you even begin to toy with the Greek alphabet and practice a few mispronounced words.
In subsequent works, he geometrically structured the stippled monochromes to toy with color contrasts.

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