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wordplay

noun as in acrostic

noun as in play on words

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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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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wordplay, such as: acronym, cipher, composition, and phrase.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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