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woozy

[woo-zee, wooz-ee] / ˈwu zi, ˈwʊz i /


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The CrossWave looks stable until you attempt to step on its tilting, woozy deck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Not entirely, that is, which is part of the woozy enjoyment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

There is a purposeful anti-authoritarian streak running through the film that makes it feel, even as purely fun as it is, like more than just a woozy lark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"It's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage performance level," she said, adding that medicines she's taking were making her light-headed and woozy.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

I looked back at her, my stomach flipping over inside my body, my head getting woozy like I was drunk even though I didn’t have a sip of alcohol in forever.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

The instrumentation became less tactile and more distanced with woozier synth-pop.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

But pop moves fast and a new, woozier kind of tune by the likes of Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa has made such coldly strident numbers seem old-fashioned.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2018

On the aptly named You’re Dead!, the artist’s fifth album, Flying Lotus steers into woozier, jazzier territory and brings listeners on a cartoon-paced trek through the afterlife.

From Newsweek

Since the novel is set in the woozier fringes of Southern California, many are the occasions for such misunderstanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Swimming” released last month, was his wooziest and most insular to date.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

They made a very brave show of it until we got under weigh, and then they were led just about the wooziest dance you ever heard tell of.

From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman

And say, that was the wooziest collection ever bunched together!

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

Inside of two minutes Maggie has sold us four entrance tickets, and we're headed for the biggest and wooziest thriller to be found in the lot.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford


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