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jivey

a. Having a jive character: thus alternatively lively or bogus

Usage examples of "jivey".

Says Sugar Baby in that voice you can't tell is it quavering with hurt or anger or jivey good humor, he's got better things to do.

Music—a kind of jivey honky-tonk—piped up the stairs, even through the floor vents "of his room.

The foot was shaking back and forth, as if Gerald were bopping a little to some jivey piece of music — 'One More Summer' by the Rain­makers, for instance.

Thomas Pynchon uses names like Oedipa Maas and Pig Bodine (where the effect is slangy, jivey, cartoonish).