plaything
plaything
(pleɪθɪŋ )Word forms: plural playthings
1. countable noun
2. countable noun
If you say that someone is treating you as a plaything, you think that they are using you for their amusement or advantage, and do not care about you.
[disapproval]...an unfaithful husband who treated women as playthings.
He would not allow anyone to make him into a political plaything for their own ends.
