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Discover LudwigThe phrase “act scared” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation where someone is pretending to be afraid or apprehensive. For example, "The actress had to act scared in order to make the scene believable."
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He may not act scared.
Over at the robot brothel one unpleasant punter picked the wrong synth to mess with when he demanded that she act "scared and young".
On "Wide Awake," I'd have to tell the little kid, if he had to act scared, "Pretend you have to go to the bathroom.
Flacco has no formal theater training, and he apparently interpreted "act scared" as a direction to open his mouth as wide as is humanly possible.
It was like, "Oh we've got to act scared", and then you see the tiger and you don't have to do anything because it's an actual tiger on a sound stage which could kill you if it wanted to.
In other words, don't act scared of them.
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Also in the house was one of the few English comedians working in America, Jonathan Moore, who played a bagpipe to open his act, scaring the audience with its ancient howl as he entered the club from behind them.
I have never had sex and, to this day, the thought of the act scares me.
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He wanted it to act really scared and run away in a scene so he shook it.
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