Example Sentences

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Words fumble through fog, or have a dated slanginess which, lacking all poetry, sinks almost to parody: You're the goods, Kid .

From Time Magazine Archive

The blog posts astonished him, they seemed so American and so alien, the irreverent voice with its slanginess, its mix of high and low language, and he could not imagine her writing them.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The independence of Miss Plumtree's manner, as well as a new and strange slanginess developed both by her and by little Miss Anthony, was noted by their old companions without enthusiasm.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.

We say all these things quite seriously of our Sally, in spite of her incorrigible slanginess and vulgarity.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

The information thus tersely rapped out by Lily, and which drew down upon the head of that young person a mild maternal rebuke for slanginess, had sent his mind up at the rebound.

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram