nutsy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of nutsy
Example Sentences
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“I know they probably don’t love the second goal, but we don’t love their second goal either. … We really competed and that was a nutsy win.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
“She can be the clown one moment, all nutsy crazy, and be very touching the next.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
All fighting, all grimacing — though sometimes all smiling, weeping and singing — “Dragon Blade” is the kind of nutsy maximalist entertainment that isn’t content merely to tap a handful of influences.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015
Snubs: Jake Gyllenhaal seemed a dead cert as the creepy news-cameraman in Nightcrawler, but lost out to Carell’s nutsy plutocrat and his funny nose.
From Time ● Jan. 15, 2015
“Vhat you zink now? Zink Kalo iss nutsy fruitbar?”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
They’re very simple but you need to follow them, lest the Empress go even nutsier than she’ll be already with the usual 4,000 entries to this contest.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
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