wordplay
Example Sentences
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He spun wordplay, philosophical debates and scientific principles into popular theatrical entertainment, landing a string of West End and Broadway hits, and won a best-screenplay Oscar for the smash Hollywood film “Shakespeare in Love.”
The best it can do for jokes is endless animal wordplay—a road sign reading “Gnu Jersey,” a bacchanal dubbed “Burning Mammal.”
Crosswords, for him, are arguments on behalf of things: of what qualifies as “common knowledge,” of what role puzzles should play in informing a citizenry, of how wordplay and slang snake into the mainstream.
From Los Angeles Times
“It was raw emotion without any tricks, without any wordplay, without any of the stuff that I’d been so jaded by in the industry.”
From Los Angeles Times
How wordplay and devilish games of deduction can be as satisfying to the soul as a song.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
