red-flaggy

English

Etymology

From red flag +‎ -y.

Adjective

red-flaggy (comparative red-flaggier, superlative red-flaggiest)

1. (rare, informal) Exhibiting or characterized by red flags (signs or signals that something is wrong).
   • 2014, Patience Bloom, Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last, New York, NY: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page unknown:

     It's the kind of glow that doesn't feel strange or weird or misguided or red-flaggy. Just a glow. Yes, I'm still nervous as hell, but I know I'm moving in the right direction, no matter what happens.

   • 2018 April 18, Sophia Benoit, “You Might Be Guilty of This Dating Red Flag”, in GQ‎^[1]:

     If you never show up at her house and are always dragging her to yours, they probably are pretty suspicious of you. Nothing is more red-flaggy than someone who doesn’t make an effort to get to know their partner’s friends.

   • 2019 May 23, Julia Pugachevsky, “The Sh*tty People You Keep Dating, Based on Your Sign”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     You get so swept up by charm and great conversation that you might literally ignore their "maybe-sorta-girlfriend" or the fact that they say stuff like "I'm not really into relationships." It's like they can utter the most red-flaggy, run-for-the-hills sentence straight to your face, but as long as they're funny and cute, it'll filter out into "I'm The One."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:red-flaggy.