slangy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slangy
Adjective
  • Wilson also gets called a ‘simp,’ which is slang for a man who is viewed as foolish for being submissive or overly catering to his woman.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 26 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • As Plato once described, Socrates taught an uneducated boy how to double the area of a square.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • For such a popular restaurant, Matsuri tolerates a lot of flies, unwashed walls and substandard handwashing, as detailed in a Miami Herald story this week on last week’s inspection.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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