slangy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slangy
Adjective
  • Brain rot is a slang term to describe content that has little to no artistic, educational or substantive value, according to KnowYourMeme.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Neither slang experts nor the OED know.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The housing is for farmworkers aged 55 and up, many of whom live in substandard or cramped conditions due to their income.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Either way, these tech vendors had established a history of getting customers to adopt substandard technology in order to close a deal.
    Chris Degnan, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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