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double entendre

NOUN
  1. an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

How To Use double entendre In A Sentence

  • Everyone was a little tense, slapping each other on the back and making double entendre remarks that were rewarded with great guffaws. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • A whole whack of puns, one-liners and double entendres get crammed into the 90-minute running time, and most of them fall flatter than a postage stamp.
  • I'm a total sucker for inspired silliness and non-stop, groan-worthy double entendres and barmily burgeoning plots.
  • A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.
  • Everyone was a little tense, slapping each other on the back and making double entendre remarks that were rewarded with great guffaws. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Once, we had tea and crumpet without a hint of double entendres.
  • The fruity little tale he told about the double entendre he had committed regarding the French prime minister said it all: this was an elder statesman in his anecdotage.
  • It is also an extremely funny illustration of the national obsession with word-play, in-jokes and notably filthy double entendre.
  • She would regularly open herself up to double entendres and public hilarity and the unsubtly constructed traps of television confrontations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Often we are grateful for any little crumb that befalls us: some coded glance, some double entendre remark, some hinty, winking reference.
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