hippy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hippy
Adjective
  • But if the murderer were middle-aged and paunchy . . .
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Lean and lethally witty Adam Godley plays middle son Mayer, the perfect counterpoint to Beale’s paunchy patriarch.
    Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
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
  • 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
  • In fact, it was released during the slightly less dumpy dump month of February — on February 13, 1991, with nationwide sneak previews on February 2, 1991.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • His pale face and flabby jowls belie too much time spent under fluorescent office lighting, too little in the gym.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The result was a humanoid robot able to seamlessly walk, dodge, squat, and dance by copying a human.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
  • That includes the squat, hinge, and both bilateral (engaging body sides of the body at once) and unilateral (single-side) exercises.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Elephants, for instance, became tapirs, with stubby trunks and legs.
    Caroline Winterer / Made by History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
  • One of the loudest guests inside Capital One Arena on Sunday night had stubby legs, prominent ears and a long snout.
    Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Allen, 35, the city worker, is a burly University of Kansas graduate from Shawnee who, in his 20s, battled and beat his own addictions.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The burly defenseman was arguably the Flyers’ best player in their home-and-home with the Maple Leafs, playing a physical game while roaming all around the ice and creating scoring chances, too.
    Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Hippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hippy. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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