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

The series’ title is a meta double entendre referencing the strife we put ourselves through just trying to keep up appearances, as well as Skinner’s creative style.

From Salon

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

“I mean, it has to fit with secular society. It’s got to have some double entendre about the Gospel.”

From Washington Times

The operative literary device is the double entendre.

From New York Times