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Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
The twee levels are off the charts, and there’s no amount of vintage sweaters and slangy lingo that can make playing the clarinet cool, despite Decker’s best efforts and Joe’s claims otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
In some of your works there are legible English word lists, though — playful, slangy pairs of words, such as “Orb Brain” and “Muddle Head.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
These guys speak in slangy lingo, such as “Strike straight,” that reveals their need for a melded identity in their rebellious attitude toward life.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Mr. Lovano is a slangier, less fastidious, more impulsive improviser than Mr. Hersch, and they seemed a classic odd couple during the set’s opener, “A Lark.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013
Kerry Michael's funkier, slangier paraphrase of that pronouncement augurs well for his production.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010
“Dear me, Jennie,” admonished The Fox, “you are getting slangier every day.”
From Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans by Emerson, Alice B.
Sometimes it feels like we must be the snarkiest, slangiest, least-formal generation in human history.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2014
The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant.
From Time Magazine Archive
But with equal ease Anouilh goes in for every approach, from the slangiest to the most sculptured.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Then, to quote my slangiest pupil again—good-night!" and Nelson went away cheerfully to greet several of the young men of the town grouped on the other side of the wharf.
From The Mission of Janice Day by Turner, Corinne
You are the rudest girl I ever met, and the slangiest.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline
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