earthy
IPA: ˈɝθi
adjective
- Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
- Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.
- (figurative) Coarse and unrefined, crude.
- Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
- Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
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Examples of "earthy" in Sentences
- In fact, he's been hunting for what he calls "earthy, timeless pieces" since he was 18.
- This vetiver could be described as earthy and perhaps a tad smoky and woody and quite musky.
- Line Knitwear showed four fairly good looks in earthy tones with a standout pair of salmon colored leather cropped wide leg pants.
- Wherefore should I sorrow for what I eat, for what I drink, or for what I may array this miserable food for worms called my earthy body?
- About the massive crowd that we saw today as we are looking at these pictures that he drew in Portland about the so-called earthy residents about Oregon.
- But Montaigne says that such behavior is wrong: “I crawl in earthy slime but I do not fail to note, way up in the clouds, the matchless height of certain souls.”
- At last she recognised it; it was a familiar odour, a peculiar smell, of the kind we call earthy: -- it was the air of her own earth-house, in days that seemed far away!
- Of course, these are the same folks who think God created fossils to "look" 50 million years old, even though the earthy is "really" only 5,000 years old, so their use of the analytical method is hardly something I'd have a lot of faith in.
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