Songwriting rhymes for portraying
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Perfect rhymes for portraying
- playing
- swaying
- praying
- braying
- slaying
- staying
- flaying
- surveying
- decaying
- straying
- conveying
- dismaying
- allaying
- relaying
- downplaying
- displaying
- splaying
- replaying
- buffeting
- spraying
- betraying
- egg laying
- doomsaying
- preying
- crocheting
- fraying
- delaying
- repaying
- roleplaying
- taxpaying
- disobeying
- obeying
- sleighing
- mayeng
- neighing
- prepaying
- purveying
- ricocheting
- graying
- overpaying
- carillon playing
- greying
- outweighing
- overplaying
- underpaying
- nonpaying
- decay hung
- doorway hung
- hallway hung
- j ing
- k ing
- lay ing
- pay ing
- play ing
- say ing
- they hung
Near rhymes for portraying
Near rhymes work great for songwriting, often giving a more interesting feel than perfect rhymes.
- waiting
- making
- baby
- taking
- breaking
- it
- is
- with
- this
- maybe
- if
- waking
- been
- think
- crazy
- thing
- chasing
- wasting
- things
- will
- give
- still
- changing
- shaking
- wasted
- getting
- fading
- did
- sing
- waited
- amazing
- bring
- shit
- saving
- craving
- drink
- til
- lately
- wish
- aching
- kiss
- his
- hit
- him
- telling
- miss
- lady
- racing
- until
- skin
- painted
- nothing
- burning
- big
- going
- bit
- raining
- hating
- sailing
- something
- trying
- bitch
- ring
- pick
- till
- feeling
- sick
- fear
- turning
- sit
- looking
- sayin'
- staring
- king
- searching
- coming
- working
- everything
- since
- kill
- doing
- begging
- clear
- win
- running
- fit
- letting
- living
- thinking
- failing
- trading
- blazing
- fill
- lazy
- being
- year
- ladies
- wings
- talking
- falling
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