zingy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of zingy
Example Sentences
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Mr. Mungiu, who has a stark, forthright style—no bludgeoning the audience with musical cues, no zingy dialogue—lets this life-upending moment play out in the blandest way imaginable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Pickles are your secret weapon: quick-pickled onions, jalapeños, classic dill, or even a zingy giardiniera bring acidity, crunch, and punch.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
The play draws out the distinctiveness of the grandparents by ratcheting up their zingy eccentricities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Fans of TV show Friends will be very familiar with Chandler Bing's zingy one-liners and ability to cut through any situation with sarcasm - of its six main characters, he was arguably the funniest.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
No, it’s not Ibsen, a dramatist rarely noted for zingy one-liners.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
So Idle workshopped it — did the algebra, as he described it — and wound up with a new, zingier joke he preferred.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
It has zingier dialogue and less shouting; more sweet than salty.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
The results are easy to imagine: more fragrant and wonderful and, I have to say it, "zingier" zengoula.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021
Still, John Wilson's adapted score – which borrows from Andre Previn's movie arrangements – adds a sparkle to even the most drearily expository songs: the flutes somehow sound cheekier, the brass ruder, the strings zingier.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2012
Momly threw one of her zings that sound too sweet to be a zing, which makes it zingier.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
“Polite Society” doesn’t need the slickest fight choreography or the most innovative plot devices or the zingiest lines to make its combo platter work, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
The Times rounds up the zingiest “Cats” reviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2019
The premise of Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” may be the work’s zingiest asset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
Julia’s reaction: Some of the zingiest zings in this show were wordless.
From Slate ● May 21, 2015
But in John Kazanjian's unfussy staging, with two intermissions, "November" wears thin and is only as diverting as its zingiest punch lines.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2011
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