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Below this, there's a slangily American injunction to "Think Different."

From Time Magazine Archive

But Shaw did not solve his problem of making Joan personally real by making her slangily realistic and outwardly much like other people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four doors open into the rose-houses, and at the east end is the one devoted exclusively to the culture of Jacqueminots,—the "Jack"-house it is irreverently, if not slangily, styled.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

For the rest I had tireless energy and a good deal of courage of the kind that is sometimes slangily called "cheek."

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

"Cut it out!" she slangily retorted, sharply, withdrawing her hand.

From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin