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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

"It looks as though the S. F.'s ought to get busy," she said slangily.

From Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

But that life would pall even on Lena, and she giggled wisely when I slangily suggested as much.

From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton