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  • adjective informal Resembling ragtime music.

Etymologies

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ragtime +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Randy Newman, who is not the most prolific songwriter, sprinkled his Jazzfest set with new songs: easy-rolling, ragtimey piano parts carrying lyrics that often drifted toward patter: sometimes political, sometimes personal.

    Jazzfest: Randy Newman, From Cakewalks to Fats Domino - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Randy Newman, who is not the most prolific songwriter, sprinkled his Jazzfest set with new songs: easy-rolling, ragtimey piano parts carrying lyrics that often drifted toward patter: sometimes political, sometimes personal.

    Jazzfest: Randy Newman, From Cakewalks to Fats Domino - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Once I settled in, though, I was soothed by the show's quaint use of sepia toned Manhattan-scapes and Roaring 20's tweakly ragtimey piano.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • Once I settled in, though, I was soothed by the show's quaint use of sepia toned Manhattan-scapes and Roaring 20's tweakly ragtimey piano.

    A Diversified Entertainment Fund Ben Barren 2005

  • Some of the bands were more ragtimey, some of the bands were more what we now refer to as swing.

    Steven Bernstein: Mixing the Strange and Familiar 2006

  • A guitar solo went through a '70s-style voice bag; ragtimey fingerpicking led into an odd-meter section that was interrupted by a trumpet and quickly detoured toward funk.

    NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010

  • Well, new Earl Fuller rips, anyway -- Earl being a bandleader who recorded very ragtimey and jazzy dance sides in the late 1910s.

    Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else 2009

  • The Fall or the ragtimey The Day Before War, but her songwriting can also be biting and incisive, like the bayou-blessed whimsy of

    Herohill 2009

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