zinger
Example Sentences
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So Idle workshopped it — did the algebra, as he described it — and wound up with a new, zingier joke he preferred.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Fans of “All the President’s Men” might find themselves wishing for something zingier — the tang of conspiracy, say, more trench coats and shadowed parking garages.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022
The results are easy to imagine: more fragrant and wonderful and, I have to say it, "zingier" zengoula.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2021
Still, John Wilson's adapted score – which borrows from Andre Previn's movie arrangements – adds a sparkle to even the most drearily expository songs: the flutes somehow sound cheekier, the brass ruder, the strings zingier.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2012
Momly threw one of her zings that sound too sweet to be a zing, which makes it zingier.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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