double entendre
Example Sentences
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The title “Foe” is also a pun, though the rest of the movie is not so offensively bad as that double entendre; it’s just so lacking in substance and momentum as to be entirely inert.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
“I mean, it has to fit with secular society. It’s got to have some double entendre about the Gospel.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2023
The operative literary device is the double entendre.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
The title, “I Swear,” is a double entendre that will be immediately recognizable to aficionados of the representative’s salty style.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023
He had a chip on his shoulder: it was a sort of black joke he shared with himself, a double entendre, made silently.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
