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Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
To that end, the soapy spoof “Sylvanian Drama” works beautifully in its one-minute chunks but becomes its own slangy mindset after an hour.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
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
The new movie attempts to adapt all of Wells King’s casual, slangy tweets into a cogent narrative without relying on aesthetic media tropes.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 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
You are the rudest girl I ever met, and the slangiest.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline
"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
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