slangy
IPA: sɫˈændʒi
adjective
- Including or given to slang.
- (dated) Flashy; vulgar; loud in dress, manner, and conversation.
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Examples of "slangy" in Sentences
- Why does he use 'whole' and other slangy expressions?
- Just as the English are apt to find our humour "slangy" and
- See, a.fortis, now you've got me having to ask: what's the "slangy" meaning of "shorties?"
- The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easilyjust the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house.
- The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily — just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house.
- The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily -- just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house.
- He at times almost verged on the slangy, which is, of course, quite correct and _de haut ton_, and he did not want to be taken for an old buffer, as were his contemporaries.
- To do that, there will be times when I'll need to understand slangy, off-color, and downright weird words -- all kinds -- if for no other reason than to understand what people around me are saying.
- In that sense, both childlike speech and slangy expression operate for Wallace as kin of free indirect discourse, here disguising as prose the speech or internal monologue of the author himself, rather than that of a character's.
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