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punny

(ˈpʌnɪ)
adj, -nier or -niest
of or relating to puns
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"Rick was always telling jokes (some funny, some a little punny) to make people smile; he was extremely adept at achieving this goal," she wrote.
"It's a funny, punny show and because it's a new musical, it's a chance to see something completely different.
For more light-hearted celebrity connections, I turned to a list of punny dog names on the sheknows.com website.
The playful campaign includes line art illustrations of animals such as rabbits, bears, sloths and owls doing anthropomorphic things while engaging in ridesharing activities such as carpooling, alongside punny taglines such as "Don't drive owl by yourself." "We have a longstanding relationship with the Orange County Transit Authority, and we enjoy playing a role in helping promote ridesharing initiatives that take cars off the roads," said Joven Orozco, creative director behind the project.
3 Wordy pies when I'm feeling punny. 4 Spring brings new chicks to our homestead.
Behind-the-scene (BTS) photos are uploaded in a slideshow together with the final product accompanied by witty, punny hashtags.
Graham himself acknowledged this, in Joycean fashion: "Automatic prose, part of which seem to me a little comic when it is not being to [sic] self-consciously punny Rejoyce" (SPY, 89).
The names range from the clever wordplay (Empire Shade of Mind) to the very punny (The Fuchsia Is Bright) to the mildly suggestive (Take Me to Thread).
Sarah Hyland showed up with her boyfriend, Wells Adams, and the two rocked a punny couple's costume.
'We wanted Locally to reflect something uniquely Pinoy, so we used the names of the fruits and injected a punny twist to them.'
From the gorgeous Jacqueline Fernandez gracing the occasion; to Indian television host, anchor and Bollywood actor Manish Paul at his punny best; to sizzling performances by the beautiful model, dancer and actress Daisy Shah; an entertainment packed act by Sophie Chaudhary; the hilariously entertaining comedian Sanket Bhosale; the revered RJ Naved from Radio Mirchi melting away hearts with his superb comic timing; to the World renowned mentalist Amir Lustig flashing his awe-inspiring wizardry and the stunning Miss Hungary, Virag Koroknyai - these were some of the highlights of the celebration.
I may be moving on, but Insp Middleton is just as 'punny' and we're bringing on some new social media staff to keep everyone updated on the good, bad and ugly of policing our wonderful city centre."