hooky
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On the plus side, it’s a hooky blues-rock number with rhythmic drive, which is a formula the Rolling Stones perfected roughly 60 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I was immediately caught by the simple but hooky straightforward guitar riff, and ripping drums holding it down,” Dragge says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Onlookers are invited to be mesmerized by the fuchsia flames of Gwi-Ma’s realm as the movie’s hooky synth pop bounces in the foreground.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
“I just tried to think, what's really hooky and what would be fun to sing with a crowd. Those were my parameters.”
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Bobby, feeling as though he were playing hooky from school, had a good time competing in the matches, usually at the relatively leisurely time limit of sixty moves in two hours.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Westerberg emerged as the group’s leader, providing ragged lead vocals and hooky, sharp-as-a-tack songs that grew steadily hookier and sharper as the albums progressed.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
Here, Amplify Dot spits admirably across happy hardcore synths and disjointedly funky beats, while also coming up with a chorus that's hookier than Peter Hook's tackle box.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013
With a hookier nose, and bigger eyebrows, and a hump on her back.
From Susan A Story for Children by Amy Walton
It was the evening’s hookiest offering, and somehow one of its most heartbreaking.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
Captained by the sibling duo of the singer-guitarist Eva Hendricks and her drummer brother, Sam, the group took care to mask their sweetest, hookiest instincts with fuzzy, grungy guitar on their first album, 2017’s “Guppy.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
The famous, hookiest part of the song was not really about that.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2012
I give the boy credit for all he is, but——" "But you don't intend to let him marry your daughter if by the hookiest hook and crookedest crook you can prevent it.
From Play the Game! by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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