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Recent Examples of earthiness
Pop’s vocals add imperfect earthiness, grounding the album in what feels almost like blues call-and-response.
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David Harris, SPIN, 16 June 2026
Its mild earthiness offers a nice counterpoint to the savory tomato sauce and punchy spices in the drink too, Hale tells us.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2026
Watercress curled like a dragon’s tail through a broth infused with the pleasantly medical earthiness of chuan bei, an herb in the lily family known to help stem a cough.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Sugar is the traditional sweetener in lassi, but the maple syrup here adds a subtle earthiness and dissolves quickly while blending.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
The matcha flavor is sweet with just a subtle hint of matcha earthiness, rounded out with sprinkles and glaze on top.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
This wine is co-fermented with Cabernet Franc, which adds an extra layer of brightness and earthiness in the mid-palate.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2026
The club’s fortunes have been transformed over the five years since, but even with A-list celebrities in the stands, lending an air of celebrity that seems at odds with this unpretentious North Wales town, a sense of earthiness endures.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
For a night of red wines from France that explored Burgundy, the Rhone Valley and both banks of the Bordeaux region, Weaver worked with Fabien Jacob to create food that both influenced — and was influenced by — the acid, the fruit and the earthiness each style expressed.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2026
David Harris, SPIN, 16 June 2026
Its mild earthiness offers a nice counterpoint to the savory tomato sauce and punchy spices in the drink too, Hale tells us.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2026
Watercress curled like a dragon’s tail through a broth infused with the pleasantly medical earthiness of chuan bei, an herb in the lily family known to help stem a cough.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Sugar is the traditional sweetener in lassi, but the maple syrup here adds a subtle earthiness and dissolves quickly while blending.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
The matcha flavor is sweet with just a subtle hint of matcha earthiness, rounded out with sprinkles and glaze on top.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
This wine is co-fermented with Cabernet Franc, which adds an extra layer of brightness and earthiness in the mid-palate.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2026
The club’s fortunes have been transformed over the five years since, but even with A-list celebrities in the stands, lending an air of celebrity that seems at odds with this unpretentious North Wales town, a sense of earthiness endures.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
For a night of red wines from France that explored Burgundy, the Rhone Valley and both banks of the Bordeaux region, Weaver worked with Fabien Jacob to create food that both influenced — and was influenced by — the acid, the fruit and the earthiness each style expressed.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthiness
Noun
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The Ocean Observatories Initiative was established in 2016 and involves around 900 instruments across parts of the Pacific and Atlantic, especially designed to withstand the immense pressure and corrosive saltiness of the ocean depths.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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Each manufacturer's kosher salt will have subtle differences in flavor, saltiness level, and volume.—
Heather Riske,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 June 2026
Noun
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The other funnymen of the time—Milton Berle with his lewd suggestiveness, Jackie Gleason with his baleful roar—did the same shtick over and over.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The layer of comic broadness on top of the romance also seemed intended to compensate for the fact that the dating itself wasn’t particularly compelling.—
Anna Peele,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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Democrats expressed discomfort with the broadness of the list.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There’s no gaminess to be found.—
Restaurant Critic,
Houston Chronicle,
6 May 2026
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The consomé contains soft garbanzo beans and rice, and the spicing makes the gaminess manageable.—
Cesar Hernandez,
San Francisco Chronicle,
27 Oct. 2022
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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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That’s the dirtiness of rugs and pulling.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2026
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For a young team learning to stick up for each other, Mangiapane brings a needed dirtiness to the Hawks.—
Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And thus the audience is stuck with this scenario, which complicates in intensity and with a linguistic relish that has its funny moments (for some, anyway), but also features a lot of crudity that really wrenches you away from the typical landscape of the classy, urban American farce.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Yet Burr never stoops to crudity.—
Bob Strauss,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Earthiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthiness. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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