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Oscar Wilde was famous for his witty wordplay.
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In fact, the writers and artists have a WhatsApp group dedicated to coming up with English-language alternatives to any wordplay in the original French scripts.
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Jamie Lang, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
Some of the film’s winking references are more esoteric than others, and a lot of wordplay and in-jokes are potentially lost on a non-Japanese audience: some of them are, according to the subtitles on my copy, basically untranslatable.
—Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
This wordplay came naturally to my mother, a kind of jazz.
—Steve Silberman, Scientific American, 12 July 2023
Carpenter is not afraid of a gimmick, a little wordplay, or even some wink-y pandering to the audience.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
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Jamie Lang, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
Some of the film’s winking references are more esoteric than others, and a lot of wordplay and in-jokes are potentially lost on a non-Japanese audience: some of them are, according to the subtitles on my copy, basically untranslatable.
—Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
This wordplay came naturally to my mother, a kind of jazz.
—Steve Silberman, Scientific American, 12 July 2023
Carpenter is not afraid of a gimmick, a little wordplay, or even some wink-y pandering to the audience.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for wordplay
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“Wordplay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wordplay. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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wordplay
noun
word·play
ˈwərd-ˌplā 
: wit that is based on the clever use of words
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