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"sense": "flashy or showy",
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"ref": "1996, Daniel J. Wideman, Rohan B. Preston, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, page 189",
"text": "Your mother-of-pearl teeth, hard thighs, heaving ribcage — The smooth back of your adolescent neck, Your hot testicles swimming with future generations, And that rhinoceros horn there that makes you shiver all jazzy — You are where I get my fantasies, nigra.",
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"ref": "2005, Peter Thomas, The Den of the Assassin, page 247",
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"sense": "in the style of jazz",
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"sense": "flashy or showy",
"word": "flashy"
},
{
"word": "showy"
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{
"sense": "gaudy",
"word": "gaudy"
},
{
"sense": "lacking focus",
"word": "jittery"
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"word": "jangling"
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"sense": "in the style of jazz",
"word": "jatsahtava"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flashy or showy",
"word": "sähäkkä"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "flashy or showy",
"word": "grell"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flashy or showy",
"word": "protzig"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "flashy or showy",
"word": "auffällig"
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"sense": "flashy or showy",
"word": "llamativo"
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