syncopated

To us, it is the contemporary sound through which new and old truths explode in syncopated revelation.

Just at present our young people are going mad over ragtimes, apparently because syncopated rhythms are new to them.

That night he would seek in the native quarter the whining and syncopated tunes of the East.

He bolted and sidled in a ragged syncopated gait, snorting and flinging his head angrily.

The conversation, very desultory, was syncopated by Jack Cardigan talking about "mid-off."

A Schuetzen Park picnic was gathering itself under the arches, to the syncopated tune of a brass band.