breezy

comparative breezier · superlative breeziest · alternative rare breezey

1. With a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy.

   I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them.

   2020 September 5, Jane Greenway Carr, “How we spent our summer not-vacations”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2024

2. figurativelyWith a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner.

   It used to be so easy living here with you / You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do / Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool

   1971, Carole King, “It's Too Late”, in Toni Stern (lyrics), Tapestry, performed by Carole King, Ode Records

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   Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

   2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2013

   “Let Them All Talk” is as breezy as an ocean cruise (pre-Covid), and mostly a welcome excuse to enjoy its three septuagenarian leads – Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest – as they banter their way across the Atlantic.

   2020 December 10, Brian Lowry, “‘Let Them All Talk’ takes a breezy boat trip with Meryl Streep and company”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2021

plural breezies · alternative rare breezey

1. African-American VernacularA young woman.

   2018, Clifford "Spud" Johnson, Won't Stop I know you haven't brought any of these breezies to the place where I'll be staying, Cotton?

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   Then you got the Heartless Hustlas. This narcissist doesn't give a damn about anybody including himself. He usually messes with gutter breezies that he can manipulate 'cause she aint got nothin' goin' for herself no way.

   2009, Randria Godbolt, Submissive, page 19