double entendre
[ duhb-uh l ahn-tahn-druh, -tahnd; French doo-blahn-tahn-druh ]SEE DEFINITION OF double entendreSynonyms for double entendre
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR DOUBLE ENTENDRE
This was no conventional—if the double entendre may be permitted—demonstration.
And so it was, though I had not been intending what the French call a double entendre at the time.
Here, however, it is probable that a double entendre was meant.
But, no indeed, I was quite innocent of any double entendre.
If it had double entendre, its existence had a double meaning.
And wasn't what he had just said very like what the French call a double entendre?
The Normans failed to see the "double entendre" of this reply.
He divined an innuendo, a double entendre in the speech that he did not comprehend, yet which enraged him.
Now large teeth do not lend themselves to well-spoken comedy scenes, to smiles, or to double entendre.
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MORE RELATED WORDS FOR DOUBLE ENTENDRE
equivocation
nounavoidance of an issue- ambiguity
- amphibology
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cop out
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- run-around
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
loose talk
nounvulgar speechplay on words
nounhumorous ambiguous use of word or phrasepun
nounplay on wordspuns
nounplay on wordstergiversation
nounequivocation- ambiguity
- amphibology
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cop out
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- equivoque
- euphemism
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedge
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- run-around
- shuffle
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- waffle
- weasel word