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Adjective
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That practice was discarded in 1982, but the expression is still slang for a thrilling experience.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Gooning is a slang term for male masturbation.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.—
Calvin Tomkins,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Chaiwalas, or street tea venders, have long been taken as emblems of the small-scale entrepreneurialism by which uneducated Indians can gain subsistence, and, in theory, something more.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Dientes was a peasant, substantially illiterate and uneducated.—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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People who know how substandard these homes are don’t voluntarily go there.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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To normies, this abrogation of procedure and consensus is the route to a shitty, substandard building.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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