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- amphibology
- an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
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- weasel word
collapse - an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- complexity of meaning,
- double entendre,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- irony,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- paronomasia,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- punning,
- richness of meaning,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty
- double entendre
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- an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- belly laugh,
- blue story,
- complexity of meaning,
- counterword,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ethnic joke,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- good one,
- good story,
- howler,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- laugh,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- panic,
- paronomasia,
- play,
- point,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- punning,
- rib tickler,
- richness of meaning,
- riot,
- scream,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- sport,
- squinting construction,
- story,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty,
- visual joke,
- weasel word,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- yarn
- pun
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- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- ambiguity,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- chime,
- clink,
- corruption,
- counterword,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- double entendre,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- near rhyme,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- poke fun at,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- punning,
- quip,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- slant rhyme,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- squinting construction,
- utter a mot,
- weasel word,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- irony
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- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs related words >
- Atticism,
- Janus,
- agile wit,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- complexity of meaning,
- conjugation,
- cynicism,
- dichotomy,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dry wit,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esprit,
- farce,
- halving,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- lampoon,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- nimble wit,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- parody,
- paronomasia,
- pleasantry,
- polarity,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- pretty wit,
- punning,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- richness of meaning,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- self-contradiction,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- visual humor,
- wit
- ambiguity
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- unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
- an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context related words >
- Janus,
- ambivalence,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- antinomy,
- asymmetry,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- cavil,
- conjugation,
- counterword,
- dichotomy,
- disproportion,
- disproportionateness,
- dodge,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double-talk,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- evasion,
- haggling,
- hair-splitting,
- halving,
- hedge,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heterogeneity,
- impenetrability,
- imprecision,
- inapprehensibility,
- inarticulateness,
- incognizability,
- incoherence,
- incommensurability,
- incompatibility,
- incomprehensibility,
- inconclusiveness,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- indefiniteness,
- indistinctness,
- inscrutability,
- irony,
- irreconcilability,
- nonconformability,
- nonconformity,
- numinousness,
- obscurity,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- polarity,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- quibbling,
- ramblingness,
- self-contradiction,
- shift,
- squinting construction,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- unconformability,
- unconformity,
- unconnectedness,
- unfathomableness,
- unintelligibility,
- unknowability,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsearchableness,
- vagueness,
- weasel word
- equivocation
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- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
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