punky

Example Sentences

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They had developed kindred styles on their solo albums, absorbing lapidary Laurel Canyon folk-pop, punky electric-guitar drive, glimmers of electronics and psychedelia, and lyrics that mix confession and fantasy, the diaristic and the surreal.

From New York Times

So when I stepped into the Palace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday evening, I could feel my brain toggling between punky skepticism and happy anticipation.

From Washington Post

The text swerves from breathy and adulatory to cutting and punky: “Marriage was fundamentally a humiliation of women”; “And will not the adequate critic of women be a woman?”

From Los Angeles Times

No matter how much fun it is to roar a punky “no” at everything, sometimes constructive action can be just as satisfying.

From Washington Post

"It's a nod to her - the tartan, the punky skulls - it's everything she was about."

From BBC