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
It’s kind of a double entendre, because we’re second-generation physicians.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022
For all the obvious reasons — the alliteration, the inflection towards "Breaking Bad," the double entendre of breaking bread with people.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2022
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
