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Recent Examples of aw-shucks The connections Plunkett draws between Frost’s lyric poems and their literary influences are valuable, particularly for anyone taken in by Frost’s aw-shucks persona. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 Image The Killer Inside Me By Jim Thompson From the outside, Lou Ford seems to be every bit the easygoing, aw-shucks deputy sheriff of a small Texas town. S.a. Cosby, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 His aw-shucks face was his biggest asset as Joe Biden and even the devil himself. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025 So Far Quaid’s aw-shucks affability belies his constantly turning brain and his ambition to stretch beyond the bounds of what he’s done before. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025 Profiles invariably zeroed in on his combination of dogged perseverance and an aw-shucks approach to his task. Clay Risen, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Sadler was an aw-shucks, yes-sir, no-ma’am twangy singer who was raised in Texas. Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 Gillis, with his aw-shucks demeanor and decidedly un-PC comedy, represents exactly the kind of normal-guy sensibility Bud Light desperately needs to appeal to after alienating its core audience. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 Part of Allen’s aw-shucks charm has been carrying himself as just one of the guys, always approachable and eager to please. Tim Graham, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aw-shucks
Adjective
  • Don’t be naive and offer $500 for a premium domain name.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • But that naive, first-generation Polish-American girl soon became a force to be reckoned with.
    Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • These rapid deportations mean some innocent people are being denied the chance to clear their name in a U.S. courtroom.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • Seeing innocent people arrested for exercising their civil rights, sparked his desire to pursue a career in law.
    J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Trevon Williams, who did not escape from the New Orleans jail, was charged with 10 counts of being a principal to simple escape, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced on May 23.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • As artificial intelligence models grow increasingly sophisticated, their capabilities extend far beyond simple task execution.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Houde said these mammoth animals are a primitive group of proboscideans ('elephantoids') from which modern elephants evolved.
    Joseph J. Kolb, Fox News, 18 July 2017
  • Many are primitive and remote, and don’t have restrooms or water.
    OregonLive.com, OregonLive.com, 12 July 2017

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“Aw-shucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aw-shucks. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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