Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by or done in a bold, defiant, or aggressive manner: in-your-face advertising; an in-your-face challenge to authority.
Wiktionary
- adj. aggressively or blatantly confrontational
WordNet 3.0
- adj. blatantly aggressive
Examples
“Between dogs, what I called an in-your-face—presenting oneself in front of, and very close to the face of, another dog—is effective at getting attention—but not if the dog is engaged in rollicking play with someone else.”
“Less recognized means include bumping, pawing, or simply orienting oneself right up in front of someone else: what I have called an in-your-face in my data of dog play behaviors.”
“What the audience takes in -- some ticket buyers enthusiastically, others not so, from what I could tell -- is an in-your-face belittling of part of the land's checkered past.”
The Huffington Post: David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful
“Both emit a "Don't b.s. me," in-your-face bluntness learned living in a state filled with no-nonsense Italians and Irish.”
“In an in-your-face pure punk explosion, The Mystic Knights & The Cobras were a free-for-all of music and dance where anything and everything goes that set the pit in front of the stage, and the rest of the audience, on a nonstop twenty minute frenzy.”
The Huffington Post: Melissa Webster: The KerPUNK Festival and the Power of the Internet
“I don't really mind this in-your-face stuff because it makes good conversation between me and my husband.”
The Huffington Post: Deborah Chud: A Healthy Food Blogger Faces the Opposition
“They're back on top of the AFC West, thanks to a five-game winning streak and another collapse by the Broncos (aka, the bickering Broncos, considering Brandon Marshall's in-your-face admonishment of fumbling running back Knowshon Moreno and coach Josh McDaniels 'pre-game trash talk to San Diego linebackers).”
“Two smashing new gay movie musicals burst off the screen with the kind of androgynous appeal and in-your-face performances reminiscent of that great Australian drag spectacle, 1994's Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Puttin' On The Glitz (Two Hot New Gay Movie Musicals)
“Now, in-your-face religious conservatives want the phrase chiseled in front of us at court, at work and in our kids' schools.”
The Huffington Post: Roy Speckhardt: The Resolution For 'In God We Trust'
“Em is just not as much in-your-face crazy as K was (and is).”
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Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
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