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[ adjective ] conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Examples "coarse language" "a crude joke" "crude behavior" "an earthy sense of humor" "a revoltingly gross expletive" "a vulgar gesture" "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)The soldiers who comprised the rank_and_file of the Civil_War armies were an earthy people . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings , he wrote on_the_one_hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on_the_other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble , Arkansas , where no one had ever seen a piano ; and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor , `` The_Big_Bear_of_Arkansas '' , in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] hearty and lusty
Examples "an earthy enjoyment of life" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)This masterpiece has gaiety , too , but it is the gaiety of dancing people : earthy , salty and humorous . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not far removed from or suggestive of nature
Examples "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow" "earthy smells of new-mown grass" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)With his mouth opened wide , he squirted the warm white milk against the roof of his mouth and his tongue savored the light , earthy taste of it . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] sensible and practical
Synonyms Examples "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem" "her earthy common sense" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] sensible and practical
Synonyms Examples "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem" "her earthy common sense" Related terms |
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