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- adjective Having a
jive character: thus alternativelylively orbogus
Etymologies
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Examples
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This one hangs a thin story about a New York City cartoonist and his jivey gal pal on a cacophony of racist and sexist imagery.
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Then there's his weakness for jivey alliteration: "I was frayed, fraught, french-fried and frazzled."
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy – review John O'Connell 2010
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This one hangs a thin story about a New York City cartoonist and his jivey gal pal on a cacophony of racist and sexist imagery.
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He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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From Bikram, I branched out to Jivamukti, a school of vinyasa yoga, which links poses together in a callisthenic-like flow, employing music (jazzy, jivey, new agey devotional - think Zero Seven, but with repeated references to Hindu gods), incense, a bit of massage and brief lectures ( "dharma talks") on yoga philosophy.
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Conceived during the roaring twenties, an era of jivey speculation and easy money similar to our last twenty years, the Empire State Building was built during the Great Depression.
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He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The track "Da Funk" combines '70s soul, jivey guitar and a wicked humpty beat.'
Electronic Eden 2008
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In such warhorses as the excerpts from "Sleeping Beauty" and "Don Quixote," presented at the gala, they are handsome and confident; and in Paul Taylor's "Company B," set to songs of the Andrews Sisters, they are loose-limbed, jivey and dazzling.
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