double entendre
Example Sentences
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Hoping to give her blessing and her mother’s wedding ring to her son — “The Family Stone” remains a very clever double entendre — Sybil’s plans are quickly thwarted by this realization.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025
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
“All American” — its title a slick double entendre — includes references to dookie braids and James Brown, writing the Black experience into the sort of country song that would ordinarily exclude it.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021
Afterward, they regroup in the living room for board games and goofy improvisation contests, all free of profanity and even double entendre.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
