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Meaning of clickbait-y | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Examples

“The Daily Caller, rightwing blog and trusty purveyor of all things clickbait-y, aggressively aggregated a story over the weekend that a woman has sued the city over being stopped and frisked in Brooklyn last year.”
“Even if they can't execute it as well as Buzzfeed,^([sic]) it's also fine to run some clickbait-y content to subsidise the more important but less popular reporting they^([sic]) good media outlets should produce.”
“A tantalizing, clickbait-y headline gets slapped atop the tweet, video or blog. ("You won't believe the five life lessons in this shocking video!")”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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