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Recent Examples of earthiness
Los Angeles designer Ryan White often enlists European-limewash craftsmen, such as ClayCraft, to supply that elevated earthiness.
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Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
The actress draws on her earthiness to make Joy an underdog who’s very easy to love.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
The flavor was rich, yet still allowed the mild earthiness of the potatoes to shine through.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
Fresh spinach is brighter in flavor and color, and has a subtle earthiness and faint sweetness.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Some of that earnest earthiness comes through in how Safdie interacts with the moviegoing public.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Black cherries exploded with Toro’s wild earthiness—powerful yet poised and opulent.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
The actress draws on her earthiness to make Joy an underdog who’s very easy to love.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
The flavor was rich, yet still allowed the mild earthiness of the potatoes to shine through.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
Fresh spinach is brighter in flavor and color, and has a subtle earthiness and faint sweetness.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Some of that earnest earthiness comes through in how Safdie interacts with the moviegoing public.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Black cherries exploded with Toro’s wild earthiness—powerful yet poised and opulent.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthiness
Noun
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Bits of bacon add a nice saltiness and also texture.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
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Soy sauce adds saltiness and umami goodness to the sauce.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By the parable-like broadness of its belief that love is the only thing lucid enough to see through an Orwellian assault on reality.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Oct. 2025
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What Happens Next The conversation surrounding Kirk's killing, political violence and the broadness of free speech remains ongoing as lawmakers, government officials, the media and the general public continue to discuss last week's events and possible future consequences.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite the heavy central theme of chronic illness, there’s a delicious bawdiness to Will There Ever Be Another You, a vulgar juvenilia evoking graffiti-tag genitals or the ding dong ditch scene from Billy Madison.—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There is plenty of coarseness in American arenas totally unrelated to MAGA or Trumpism, of course.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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Everything else was affected by its gravitational pull and drawn into the work of dilating it further—even the firms rumored to be at the farthest remove from the crudity, even negative emissions technologies and the market on which their credits circulated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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But Shelly will still go on about the crudity of newer shows in town, insisting that Razzle Dazzle has an elegant French tone.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The artist’s way, of course, is sincere, even if in the case of Dracula, sincerity begets just under three hours of unsparing cultural commentary and full goose bozo vulgarity.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Songs marked explicit mean their lyrics include swear words or other vulgarities.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Over-Nite Sensation is a triumph: a concentrated digest from perhaps the most popular stretch of his career, and a freeze-frame of his compositional flowering and ingenious lyrical ribaldry.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
The Atlantic,
27 Nov. 2023
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Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Aug. 2022
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“Earthiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthiness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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