"Slangy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said sourly, "a little of that commonplace, slangy quotation may be tolerated sometimes after the mess dinner if it's witty—mind, I say if it's witty—but such language as this seems to me quite out of place, especially if spoken in the hearing of the men ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... cartoons of the newspapers have an extraordinary fascination for children. Every child wants to read the funny page, though the funny page is not for childish reading. The humor is coarse, slangy, and distinctly vulgar; very clever frequently and thoroughly enjoyable to those whom ...
— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson
... but if we first hear Chinese, we will learn that with almost equal facility. If whatever speech we hear is well spoken, correct, and beautiful, so will our language be; if it is vulgar, or incorrect, or slangy, our speech will be of this kind. If the first manners which serve us as models are coarse and boorish, ours will resemble them; if they are cultivated and refined, ours will be like them. If our models of conduct and morals are questionable, our ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts
... by the audience to get up and dust,' cried the irrepressible Jack, whose wit was very apt to be of a slangy character. 'Now let us settle the interior, or ...
— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... blue, joined them on the way downstairs. Richard felt a sensation of anger. It was poor taste to involve a casual stranger like Ida Tabor in this rather delicate family discussion. But he thought that the little widow showed excellent sense in her rather slangy fashion. ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
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