toy with (someone)

to encourage someone to believe you care about them when you do not.

Don't fool yourself by thinking he wants a serious relationship — he's famous for toying with women.

Related vocabulary: lead someone on

• mind-reader
• Mind step.
• mind the store
• the top of the line
• the top of the tree
• the trouble with
• the trouble with someone
• the trouble with something
• the twilight zone
• the upper crust
• the villain of the piece
• the way things are
• the way things are going
• the wheel has come full circle.
• the wheel has turned full circle.
• the wheels are turning
• the whole ball of wax
• the whole bit
• the whole caboodle
• the whole enchilada
• the whole kaboodle
• the whole kit and caboodle
• the whole nine yards
• the whole picture
• the whole shebang