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  • adjective slang shiny or flashy

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Examples

  • Reporters in Washington pretty much rely on anonymous sources to write their stories, because reporters need zazzy and divisive comments from people l...

    Debt Ceiling Stories Use Anonymous Sources, According To Newspaper That Uses Anonymous Sources The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • Last week, Bayh was in the pages of the New York Times, taking a dim view of health care reform as a costly example of "overreach," correctly anticipating what would be a zazzy, post-election conventional wisdom nuglet.

    Evan Bayh Was Heavily Invested In Passing Health Care Reform Before He Was Against It The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Last week, Bayh was in the pages of the New York Times, taking a dim view of health care reform as a costly example of "overreach," correctly anticipating what would be a zazzy, post-election conventional wisdom nuglet.

    Evan Bayh Was Heavily Invested In Passing Health Care Reform Before He Was Against It The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The release of a Bob Woodward book is something of a tradition in politics, and here's how it works: the week before its release, copies are obtainedby reporters, who comb through the tome to find zazzy parts of the book to write about, baiting the hook for pundits to gnash their teeth over the odd quote or shiny detail.

    Woodward Book, 'Obama's Wars', Spawns Cracked Reactions 2010

  • The release of a Bob Woodward book is something of a tradition in politics, and here's how it works: the week before its release, copies are obtainedby reporters, who comb through the tome to find zazzy parts of the book to write about, baiting the hook for pundits to gnash their teeth over the odd quote or shiny detail.

    Woodward Book, 'Obama's Wars', Spawns Cracked Reactions 2010

  • The release of a Bob Woodward book is something of a tradition in politics, and here's how it works: the week before its release, copies are obtainedby reporters, who comb through the tome to find zazzy parts of the book to write about, baiting the hook for pundits to gnash their teeth over the odd quote or shiny detail.

    Woodward Book, 'Obama's Wars', Spawns Cracked Reactions 2010

  • Last week, Bayh was in the pages of the New York Times, taking a dim view of health care reform as a costly example of "overreach," correctly anticipating what would be a zazzy, post-election conventional wisdom nuglet.

    Evan Bayh Was Heavily Invested In Passing Health Care Reform Before He Was Against It The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The release of a Bob Woodward book is something of a tradition in politics, and here's how it works: the week before its release, copies are obtained by reporters, who comb through the tome to find zazzy parts of the book to write about.

    Woodward Book, 'Obama's Wars', Spawns Cracked Reactions 2010

  • You know how it seems that the popular elimination show you watch seems to preserve some of the competitors with the least merit for a long period of time, causing you to suspect that the producers are gaming the system to keep the zazzy failures alive for the sake of controversy?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The release of a Bob Woodward book is something of a tradition in politics, and here's how it works: the week before its release, copies are obtained by reporters, who comb through the tome to find zazzy parts of the book to write about.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

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  • Flashy; stylish. (from Phrontistery)

    May 22, 2008