Sentence examples for goosey from inspiring English sources

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goosey

adjective

Alternative spelling of goosy

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The operation has a winningly homegrown feel, and Blair — wearing white kitten-heel pumps, a nubby lavender skirt suit, and a simple gold band (she hates her fingers, so Tony skipped the diamond) — made a seductive, goosey advocate.

Eusebio Poncela's Pablo lacks a goosey, comic side; he's stone-faced in scenes involving letters to Juan and Antonio — scenes that could have a flaky vivacity.

"The Help" is morally serious and touching, but it has a goosey, gossipy quality, and a heavy dose of villainy, leading to an unpersuasive outcome.

His voice is high and nasal, and when he gets excited it swoops from a goosey honk to a gullish screech.

In "Leaves of Grass," Norton gets a real workout in a goosey, half-serious, half-comical mess.

We're beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures.

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At a hearing on Tuesday, several justices appeared to take issue with Kobach's argument, with one accusing the secretary of state of a "loosey-goosey" and "ad-hoc" determination of which candidates can appear on the ballot.

His swing is still fast and loosey-goosey.

He stands slightly pigeon-toed, bending a bit at the knees — a loosey-goosey correlative for the millennial confusions about mind and body.

It was the impression that mattered, and "the rigorously organized music ends up feeling mysteriously prankish, antic, loosey-goosey; it shuffles and shimmies like jazz from another planet".

By contrast, there's something louche and loosey-goosey about Harry Connick, Jr., who is making his Broadway début in the role.

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