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Meanings of double entendre in inglés

ruso
двусмысленность
portugués
duplo sentido
español
dobles sentidos
catalán
doble sentit

Wording that is devised to be understood in two ways.

        dobles sentidos
        Usage of double entendre in inglés
        1
        She willed away the annoyingly delicious shimmer caused by his double entendre.
        Bulletproof bride
        2
        I grinned, but he didn't seem to have noticed the double entendre.
        Storm front
        3
        It is as likely to produce a double entendre as a double bogey.
        The Irish Times
        4
        A double entendre is supposed to be located in there somewhere.
        Man in the Middle
        5
        Zip when it comes to double entendre, and I have tried.
        Heat Rises
        6
        A blush touched my cheeks when I realized the double entendre.
        Gentlemen prefer succubi
        7
        See what the fuss was about in this wonderful homage to the double entendre.
        The Guardian
        8
        This was no conventional-ifthe double entendre may be permitted-demonstration
        Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive...
        9
        Far from obscenity, therefore, do not so much as touch upon the double entendre.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4
        10
        Think of phrases like double entendre and à la mode.
        The Irish Times
        11
        We used to have to traffic in double entendre because we were on a network.
        Reuters
        12
        Yes, it's my name, but the double entendre-thatI'm full of wisdom-hasnever really applied.
        The Storyteller
        13
        They both roared at the double entendre of kid.
        Terminal Compromise
        14
        For once the morbid double entendre was completely unconscious.
        Book of shadows
        15
        Somehow this too was a kind of double entendre.
        The whole world: a novel
        16
        We were currently in a strange place, filled with double entendre and unresolved sexual tension.
        Hard eight
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        Translations for double entendre
        portugués
        duplo sentido
        catalán
        doble sentit
        Double entendre through the time
        Double entendre across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common