Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being breezy.
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- noun The characteristic of being
breezy .
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- noun a breezy liveliness
- noun a mildly windy state of the air
Etymologies
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Examples
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He does the kind of digging that is so rare both in the MSM and in most of the blogosphere to show why Fournier's suck-up comments to Karl Rove were not evidence of a reporter's mere "breeziness" but of a mindset that is reflected in Fournier's and AP's coverage; one that has the effect of perverting the truth and misleading AP's readers.
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Some of the small-town papers are, moreover, well worth reading for that kind of breeziness which we usually associate with the West rather than the South.
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Absolutely unconventional, save on his own quarter-deck, he carries about with him an atmosphere of brightness and breeziness which is almost as infectious and as bracing as a whiff of sea air.
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That makes sense since breeziness has never been a strength of CBS News, which partly explains why it has never mounted a successful effort against NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America.
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"The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention.
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Minor improvement Sunday with highs heading back toward the upper 30s to near 40 and less windy, but still some lingering breeziness.
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Even so, there was a breeziness to the July friendlies that evoked days gone by.
Premier League 2011-12: Manchester City can cause trouble for United | Kevin McCarra
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In The New York Times, fashion journalist Ruth La Ferla described Beckham's designs as exuding a breeziness that feels "patrician."
Victoria Beckham: I'm Not 'One Of These People Who Goes Out Without Any Knickers On'
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Her debut album, Seasons of My Soul, skilfully apes the pensive breeziness of that era.
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The breeziness would accelerate into great gusts of rhetoric about "an America we could be . . . an America we once were . . . an America we can be again," as though the author were poking fun at a slightly drunk Ted Sorensen.
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