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  • adjective superlative form of earthy: most earthy.

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Examples

  • “Robicheaux remains one of the coolest, earthiest heroes in thrillerdom.”

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • This is why I love my husband: given these opposites to work with, the earthiest of roots and the most exotic of fruits, he sees harmony, not discord.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • This hot, urgent quaking, this most unexpected onslaught of the earthiest of passions, was like nothing she had ever in her life expected to feel, and to her own amazement she discovered she was now completely powerless to resist.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • This hot, urgent quaking, this most unexpected onslaught of the earthiest of passions, was like nothing she had ever in her life expected to feel, and to her own amazement she discovered she was now completely powerless to resist.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Its rhetorical tropes are never so complex that they distract us with fancy intellectual footwork This earthiest of dawn songs glows, in fact, with the warm, straightforward, life-giving energy of that unruly sun.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Sondheim's lyrics are by far his earthiest and most colloquial.

    Let This Entertain You: 'Gypsy,' 50 Years Later 2009

  • Taurus, earthiest of all, comes during spring in the northern hemisphere, when earth's explosion of flowers proclaims our planet's fertility and beauty.

    Sacred Conversation 2009

  • Its rhetorical tropes are never so complex that they distract us with fancy intellectual footwork This earthiest of dawn songs glows, in fact, with the warm, straightforward, life-giving energy of that unruly sun.

    Great Regulars: The performance may be erotically boastful, Rus Bowden 2009

  • And, considering that the hour – glass they turned from year to year was filled with the earthiest and coarsest sand, the Bleeding Heart Yarders had reason enough for objecting to be despoiled of the one little golden grain of poetry that sparkled in it.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • For, in default of this, it is the ink that serves for the excretion of the earthiest matter.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

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