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adjective

variants also rustical

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rustic
Noun
The vibe: Elevated and modern with a touch of rustic. Laura Barrero, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024 The Swag, Waynesville, North Carolina The decor here is pitch-perfect rustic: cozy without being twee. Juliet Izon, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
Adjective
Wearing cowboy boots with shorts is not only a bold stylistic choice but also a practical way to dress for warm weather without giving up the rustic and rebellious touch that the boots bring. René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2025 The frame’s branches keep it rustic, but the plethora of colorful gerber daisies and ferns at the base add brightness. Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rustic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustic
Noun
  • The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • To avoid detection, a wooden cover sealed the hold, cutting off air circulation.
    Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • This is where the immortal pumps, kitten heels, and even boho wooden platforms come into play.
    Renata Joffre, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Legacy of fear and control The Khmer Rouge came to power on a wave of disillusionment, corruption, civil war and rural resentment.
    Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But they largely weren’t set up to address the needs of rural students or Latter-day Saints—commonly known as Mormons, although the Church has discouraged that term.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.
    Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
  • While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.
    Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Raw also advertised Bayley challenging Lyra Valkyria for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship, Penta vs. Dominik Mysterio and the world’s most clumsy GM Adam Pearce making his next fumble of the worst storyline going this WrestleMania season between Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair and Iyo Sky.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • This is why the Trump administration’s DOGE exercise — while clumsy at times — is such an important endeavor despite Democratic efforts to discredit it.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Carter, perhaps the most decent man to ever occupy the Oval Office, was long written off as a country bumpkin, one who perhaps unsurprisingly left office as a one-term anomaly.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In real time, the audience, the queens watching, and perhaps Suzie herself all learn that Suzie has a knack for sexiness onstage, even though she’s dressed as a clown.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Among the mass-shooting victims is a bloodied clown who was performing at the festival.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Rustic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rustic. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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