in-your-face
adjective
: characterized by or expressive of bold and often defiant aggressiveness
in-your-face basketball
also
: aggressively intrusive
in-your-face advertising
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Examples of in-your-face in a Sentence
an in-your-face attitude that sometimes puts people off
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Simmons abruptly left public life a decade ago, spawning a wildly popular podcast and documentary, and his departure was an enigmatically private last act for an over-the-top, in-your-face figure.
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The Atlantic, 16 July 2024
The first two-thirds of the Detroit rapper’s new album is a broadside of in-your-face shock rap, with an occasional old-school feel that revives the vocal mannerisms and mean streak of his Slim Shady persona.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024
Advertisement Part of that has to do with how early 1990s in-your-face filmmaking can still shock.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
His in-your-face classicism is the kind of thing critics love to fight about.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The Atlantic, 16 July 2024
The first two-thirds of the Detroit rapper’s new album is a broadside of in-your-face shock rap, with an occasional old-school feel that revives the vocal mannerisms and mean streak of his Slim Shady persona.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024
Advertisement Part of that has to do with how early 1990s in-your-face filmmaking can still shock.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
His in-your-face classicism is the kind of thing critics love to fight about.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024
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“In-your-face.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-your-face. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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