jivey
Example Sentences
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Especially in the tattoo-parlor scenes, the girls’ jivey, slang-infused chatter is rushed and blurred.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2017
It seems like a jivey do-gooder’s praise-rap for womankind, but I couldn’t dope out the intent.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2016
I suspect Bearden would have enjoyed a QuickTime animation by Nicole Miller that features the Princeton professor Cornel West talking a fluent, jivey metaphysical funny blue streak, and sounding like Bearden collages sometimes look.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011
Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
