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Definition of Singsongy
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Singsongy
Literary usage of Singsongy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"Fortaleza, however, prides itself on its modernity and worldly-wiseness, and
feels little but scorn for the uncouth, singsongy ..."
2. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson (2005)
"Action tags, as I will call them, help add a bit of information and keep dialogue
from becoming singsongy. Last, but not least, said is not dead. ..."
3. Rhetoric and the Study of Literature by Alfred Marshall Hitchcock (1913)
"At its best it is very good; when poorly managed, it becomes cheap and singsongy.
Some one has called it the rocking- ..."
4. Rhetoric and the Study of Literature by Alfred Marshall Hitchcock (1913)
"At its best it is very good; when poorly managed, it becomes cheap and singsongy.
Some one has called it the rocking- ..."
5. The Hoosier Volunteer by Kate Boyles, Virgil Dillin Boyles (1914)
"expressionless, still singsongy, long-drawn-out " ah —." " And now, my brethren,"
he continued, after more than an hour's dissertation on the Judgment, ..."
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