hippy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hippy
Adjective
  • Harbor's enjoyably over-the-top Red Guardian continues to be a paunchy steal-stealer, Pullman scores a nice MCU debut as a complex mystery man, and Louis-Dreyfus reigns as a deliciously snarky antagonist.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • From the faded velvet booths, Instagram-happy tourists sidle up against paunchy men wearing trousers the same hue as their salmon terrine.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Perun summoned a potbellied officer from the T.D.F. brigade to the operations center.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • What could be more luxurious than checking in without having to wade through a maze of slot machines and a cloud of cigarette smoke, dodging potbellied dudes in tank tops?
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
Adjective
  • At the start of the production, when Blanche arrives at her sister’s dumpy apartment, a lithe young man (Jabez Sykes) contorts himself in abstract choreography.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
  • In context, Franklin was critiquing a rather dumpy drawing of an eagle lacking a regal beak by the Society of the Cincinnati, which had adopted the nation’s bird as its symbol.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • In the first season, when jokes went flabby or the writers didn’t know how to finish a skit, a fake cow was dropped from the rafters.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The club’s coach, Enas Ahmed, herself a former Olympic wrestler, ran the girls through takedown drills and conditioning exercises, including back arches, push-ups, crab-walk sprints, lunges and squat thrusts.
    Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Where the big diesel engine would normally sit is a squat platform that not only has storage potential for produce or gear, but its low profile affords the driver a better view from the cabin.
    Paul Ridden May 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Graham has a stubby build and some prospects are more athletic.
    Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Elephants, for instance, became tapirs, with stubby trunks and legs.
    Caroline Winterer / Made by History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • To complement those two, the Thunder are using the burly Jaylin Williams to come in and push him around physically.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • First, his linguistic talents need to be tested: My examiner was an infantry captain—a tough and burly Frenchman now in the U.S. Army.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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“Hippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hippy. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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