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Oscar Wilde was famous for his witty wordplay.
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Displacing the ’90s boom bap and aughts brawlers of her last album is a streak of assiduous ’80s R&B exercises that foreground her gains as a vocalist more often than her gobstopping wordplay as a rapper.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
If your family enjoys wordplay games, choose Scrabble or Crazy Letters.
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This isn't just semantic wordplay.
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Perhaps more than ever, Hayes is the circus master of his untamable mind, a seemingly endless source of ear-worm melodies and ingenious wordplay.
—Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
If your family enjoys wordplay games, choose Scrabble or Crazy Letters.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
This isn't just semantic wordplay.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Perhaps more than ever, Hayes is the circus master of his untamable mind, a seemingly endless source of ear-worm melodies and ingenious wordplay.
—Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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 9 Oct. 2025.
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wordplay
noun
word·play
ˈwərd-ˌplā 
: wit that is based on the clever use of words
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