slangy

How To Use slangy In A Sentence

• Why does he use 'whole' and other slangy expressions? Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
• There is not a quip nor a quillet from the slangy pen of the daily newspaper writers that she does not brood over and worry about as heartily as if it were an overdue mortgage on her pianoforte. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
• His hosts are dumbstruck when their language is used against them with such slangy glee.
• Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence.
• And that night, coming out of the cannery, he was interviewed by his fellow workmen, who were very angry and incoherently slangy. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
• 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. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
• So the slangy expressions ‘to have a thing about’ or ‘the thing is’ etc. actually hark back to this interesting history.
• I'm sorry to be slangy, but this automatic writing must have started from somewhere.
• Rather, the writing spoofs the witty, slangy, often over-written dialogue of movies and radio broadcasts of the time.
• Female speech tends to be evaluated as more ‘correct’ or more ‘prestigious’, less slangy, etc.