(verb) When someone "plays the polite", that means they act AS IF they were polite, but in fact they might not be that polite.
by Fangsta December 15, 2003
when a politician or political party disagrees with a particular stance merely for the sake of disagreeing with the other side
"I just disproved those feminists on the wage gap and they yelled at me and told me I was bigoted."
"Ahh, they're just playing politics."
"Ahh, they're just playing politics."
by stain45 March 15, 2018