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    1. The four organically based centers are a no-brainer, if you'll forgive the pun


    2. pun) would be the purpose of torturing someone


    3. Alternatively, the dream may be a pun on someone named “Jay” or whose initial starts with J


    4. Also consider the pun, “getting nailed” which refers to a sexual innuendo or which means getting caught with something


    5. It may be a pun on a “rash” decision that you are making


    6. “Hold your horses,” she said, snickering over the pun


    7. The public was tired — no pun intended — of the


    8. He had to sit down and he was reasonably charged up (excuse the pun) afterwards, and had to be restrained from fatherly kicking the owner for not warning him properly


    9. Dress typically structured an individual within the context best ―suited‖ (no pun intended) for some specific or special occasion


    10. The theory allows their movement to look good and seem to always be in the right, excuse the unintended pun

    11. This is a weighty problem, no pun intended


    12. They really blew it too (pun intended) because this teacher was really cool and they had the perfect study hall going – but not anymore


    13. I walked into the rink John where Big Ted from school and Curt Columbus were seemingly just hanging out in the bathroom shooting the shit – pun intended


    14. I was close to making a pun on custard there, but I’m bigger and better than


    15. drifted off course and now I am in the same boat, excuse the pun,


    16. It was a “straight shot” (poor pun intended) one hour north of my apartment


    17. She also came as close (pun very much intended) to the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction as anyone I have met or seen in the cinema


    18. ” The stale pun


    19. I paused, scratched my head, took a deep breath and said, “I wish I knew, but that’s the million dollar question…no pun intended


    20. (No, I didn’t mean that as a pun, but it did

    21. That was a pun


    22. unwitting pun) but it was the first


    23. Robert groaned at the pun


    24. If she’d been a dog, no pun intended, he might not have had


    25. Sorry about that, I couldn’t resist the opportunity for a pun


    26. “You really were pumped weren’t you? Excuse the pun


    27. It’s simply wasted calories, no pun intended


    28. If two people are relatively compatible but there is a wide discrepancy in their laughing habits and pun proliferation, these disparities could spell trouble


    29. failure to diagnose – no pun intended – occurs quite frequently


    30. He makes the purchase but now feels so guilty that he has to spend more time as a couch potato to justify the money he dished out – pun intended

    31. throwing money out the window (no pun intended


    32. The effort would be small to start, but had the potential to grow – pun intended


    33. “The influence of which was felt… wholly shit,” I said, pun not intended, “you can substitute the story of Christ for the musicians, John The Baptist—all of them exchanging influences to create the entire drama for the audience—the world


    34. ”The influence of which was felt… wholly shit,” I said, pun not intended, “you can substitute the story of Christ for the musicians, John The Baptist—all of them exchanging influences to create the entire drama for the audience—the world


    35. I tossed my trial run – no pun intended – into the trash


    36. And that out of every five (5) men I asked, four (4) openly admitted to being serial cheaters, and that no matter how much they tried to stop it was hard (pun intended)


    37. Then the item would create a Pu(no pun intended) as pollution created in use of the item per year


    38. But did I want to end a life with so much potential? Excuse the pun,


    39. “I see that you do,” Elizabeth added with no indication at her pun


    40. "Pardon the virgin pun Mitch, but I think you know where I'm coming from, and not just on a top of the surface level, but even on a spiritual one as well

    41. Detective Sergeant Shepherd’s mind was a frenzy of ecstasy as the evidence passed the stage were even a deaf and dumb lawyer was assured of a conviction, in one fell swoop he’d cleared up three major crimes, in his mind he’d single handedly solved a premeditated murder, cleaned up a drug operation, and if the money and gun were what he thought they were, he’d not only solved the armed robbery of the Post Office but had recovered most of the money, if that wasn’t worth a promotion nothing was, no, this time his promotion was in the bag, he tittered at this pun and D


    42. added quickly, “and no pun intended by the way


    43. There might be a hundred or better! There might be a gross! Ferdy chicken remembered the ugliness of the creatures in the photograph, and chuckled to himself at his own small pun


    44. He thought he had made a pun, and he expected the others to laugh, which some of them did, perhaps not knowing why


    45. precise, you’re asking to have an affair with a mortal, pun intended


    46. consequently wouldn’t be able to up stage her performance at the contest, no pun


    47. “What museum docent?” There’s a pun in the offing


    48. he had also come across her jealous husband (no pun intended); Choad, the


    49. This was such a short cruise, comparatively, that there was no chance, he gritted his teeth at the potential pun, that he could get into trouble


    50. Sorry, no pun intended












































    1. „Better to be lackey than unlucky,' Roy punned with much show of aplomb


    2. „Some of the guests really get a bang out of this,' Hayden punned with pride


    1. In fact, I became so obsessed that whenever I appeared for Classics studies, the other boys would chant, 'Here he comes - The Idiot and the Oddity', punning Homer's title


    2. ” The speaker said merrily punning on the reason they had gathered


    3. mejoría: Castilla early shows his scorn for the empty-headedsycophant Mendaña by thus punning on the word mejoría


    4. form of wit---well, Jonathan's Whiffed: "Punning is a talent which


    5. „With his foot, you fool,' Ken said jokingly and I wondered if he was into punning? Should


    6. „Yea, I guess you could say that,' he replied, leaving the punning scenario up in the air


    7. He replied: They are like the punning riddles which are asked at feasts or the children's puzzle about the eunuch aiming at the bat, with what he hit him, as they say in the puzzle, and upon what the bat was sitting


    8. How could there be any commonness in a man so well-bred, so ambitious of social distinction, so generous and unusual in his views of social duty? As easily as there may be stupidity in a man of genius if you take him unawares on the wrong subject, or as many a man who has the best will to advance the social millennium might be ill-inspired in imagining its lighter pleasures; unable to go beyond Offenbach's music, or the brilliant punning in the last burlesque


    9. Canning in the mysterious art of punning, I think can be very little way behind his prototype in the art of equivoques


    1. ” Realizing he had done it again, he said contritely, “I apologize for these puns, I really have no excuse


    2. No puns intended; but thank God Schwartzie hadn’t made a big thing out of it


    3. No puns intended, of course


    4. “So throw in the puns of bad taste


    5. could she come up with puns at a time like this?


    6. shotgun (puns) and off we went


    7. Trussed up with twine and with a scythe blade at her throat, Bryony was in no mood for vegetable puns


    8. I’m a big fan of puns, so selecting a title that was a play on words


    9. Captain John McGee was a jovial man with a definite preference for off color humor and bad puns


    10. Bilo, Gulab and Preeti got carried away with the puns and after a few minutes they’d run over the joke, completely rinsed the humor out of it

    11. Although a fan of puns, Stallman recommends that software users pronounce the "g" at the beginning of the acronym (i


    12. "Oh, the puns," says Lippman, still exasperated by the


    13. deadpan manner in which the puns are delivered


    14. While Victor continued telling his funny puns, I was cursing Samurai’s flea Mashka that jumps so far, and the mice that live in the shed and run so fast, and those Siamese battle fishes that have lightning reactions and a piranha’s manners, in other words, all those living creatures that dwell in Sensei’s house


    15. He loved puns and silly humor, as did I


    16. my puns on that


    17. gets better---I'll stick to my puns on that


    18. „Marty, no more puns, please…I'm serious, is there a nice place around here where I can


    19. poetry, prophecy, puns and the pun-ultimate hook, the ancient lure of freedom


    20. disconnecting" (to quote his own terrible puns) "the fat in his freight had given him a fright

    21. Who chokes with laughter at the puns,


    22. He chatted with the landlady; and even told anecdotes interspersed with jokes and puns that Hippolyte did not understand


    23. Emma cried, and he tried to console her, adorning his protestations with puns


    24. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns


    25. Add to this, high shoes with little irons on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier


    26. They are deformed, and they complete themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their rigmarole resembles their plumage


    27. You can't do without puns


    28. Sir, it appears to me, that all the military enterprises during his whole administration, from the abominable attack on Copenhagen, down to the last expedition against the islands of Zealand, were nothing more than belligerent puns and conundrums


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    Synonyms for "pun"

    paronomasia pun punning wordplay play on words ambiguity double meaning joke innuendo

    "pun" definitions

    a humorous play on words


    make a play on words