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wordplay
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wordplay
/ ˈ·Éɜ˻åËŒ±è±ô±ðɪ /
noun
- verbal wit based on the meanings and ambiguities of words; puns, clever repartee, etc
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Example Sentences
In them, characters burst with life through his wordplay and fervent philosophical opinions.
Even at its most brooding, “Gemini†is enlivened by amusing wordplay and Heynderickx’s wry delivery.
Now, she says, a song’s success is less about its hookiness or wordplay than about “whether you go, ‘Oh my God, I literally texted that to my friend yesterday.’â€
But Carpenter hits her wordplay climax in “Juno†where she uses the movie name as a reference to pregnancy.
It’s very silly, but the naughty wordplay in the song is clever, and the crane shot with the boys swinging their legs in the air toward the camera is sublime.
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