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wordplay
[ wurd-pley ]
wordplay
/ ˈwɜːdˌpleɪ /
noun
- verbal wit based on the meanings and ambiguities of words; puns, clever repartee, etc
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Example Sentences
Waldman overlays her comic situations and satiric conversations with ironic literary allusions and witty wordplay.
The advice is littered with such headache-inducing wordplay.
Doubtless stocks new WordPlay Shakespeare program aimed at getting students engaged in Bard via youthful fondness for high tech.
He created a special puzzle for Oprah Winfrey when he appeared on the show to promote the Wordplay documentary about crosswords.
Once again, wordplay and ethnicity wounded an office-seeking Virginia Republican.
Abbott and he sometimes swerved into wordplay about love; but up to 1820, or thereabouts, the passion was potential merely.
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