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adjective

variants also rustical

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rustic
Noun
This marble top table from Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse has the same rustic, yet modern design with its sleek top and wood base with an antique finish. Jacqueline Tempera, People.com, 26 June 2025 Classical Rudersdal, Denmark, situated beside Copenhagen and along the open coast, exists in a perpetual tug-of-war between the rustic and the modern. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
It’s finished with a rustic wooden hello sign for a cozy farmhouse touch. Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025 But the 6-person Wellness Farmhouse is where rustic charm meets indulgent touches. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rustic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustic
Noun
  • Her character is a peasant who, around the midway mark, gives an inspiring speech to her granddaughter, Afra (Wardi Eilabuni).
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Slaves, serfs, peasants, and wage workers mostly understood that what was being struck was a hammer blow on their behalf.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In another sign that Wisconsin maritime historians are in a golden period of discovery, a wooden schooner hidden beneath the depths of Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years has been found — with citizen scientists on board to share the excitement.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Alberta’s weather is also subject to far larger daily swings in temperature and harsher winters than Scotland, all factors that affect the flavors that are extracted from the wooden barrels.
    John Kell, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As lieutenant governor, Duncan backed policies expanding healthcare in rural communities and helped pass the state’s first hate crimes law.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Kinetic by Windstream, for example, offers fiber plans up to 2 Gbps in some rural parts of Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, and North Carolina, while Brightspeed is expanding fiber coverage across 20 states, with a focus on less densely populated regions.
    Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.
    Gary Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The rubber sole is also important for clumsy gals like myself.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Camels seem slow, hippos clumsy, phoenixes unstable, lions lazy.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Without so many of the fears, complexes, and prejudices hick shaped us in the ‘90s and the ‘00s.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • Sorrentino may also be exorcising some conflicting feelings about his birthplace, which is portrayed as a vulgar, crude place populated by crooks and hicks and photographed like its paradise.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Ma and Pa Kent are the most stereotypical country bumpkins imaginable.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Going to the Ron Burgundy–Ricky Bobby idiot well one time too many, Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a lazy, cynical longtime congressman running against a local bumpkin (Galifianakis).
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing sends chills down your spine like evil clowns, undead monsters and a filthy car.
    Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Someone should be impeaching this Laporta clown.
    Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Rustic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rustic. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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