swingy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of swingy
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Webb—who contributed to “Bringing Up Baby,” “Out of the Past” and dozens of other pictures—weaves a unique spell, enhanced by hip, swingy Brazilian source music in the scenes set in Rio de Janeiro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
There’s a record on there called “All I Can Take” with the swingy Lisa Stansfield “All Around the World” drums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
This photo shows Quant in 2009, holding a replica of one of her many honors: a commemorative British postage stamp, on which a model wears an irresistibly swingy black minidress.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
"You invented that swingy thing," the Queen is said to have remarked, when giving him his knighthood.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
A four-piece band was playing a swingy number for couples dancing on the wooden deck.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
All decades of pop music swing between trends and fads—but the 2010s was swingier than most.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2019
Last week he paid a post-midnight visit to a Manhattan discotheque called Nepantha, where the younger, swingier set had paid $50 a head for the Humphrey cause.
From Time Magazine Archive
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is not up for re-election in 2020, but he hails from perhaps the nation’s swingiest presidential state.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
Lauren Baer faces a tough task on Election Day: She’s a first-time Democratic candidate for Congress vying against a veteran Republican in “one of the swingiest swing districts” in southeastern Florida, as she puts it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2018
Today, it’s the swingiest of swing states, and the land of both Ferguson and Rush Limbaugh.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2017
So, maybe the polling outlets don't have a firm grasp of where the swingiest voters in a swing state actually live.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
But no one who attended it would ever forget that his visit precipitated the swingiest wingding the White House had seen in years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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