Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rustic manner; in a manner characteristic of or befitting a peasant; hence, rudely; plainly; inelegantly.
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- adverb In a
rustic manner.
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Examples
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Before I was married, I used to buy into the illusion of excessively maintained, ironed-daily bedding, the kind found in the fanciest of bedrooms professionally decorated by my heroes, interior designer Bunny Williams and the more rustically organic designer Vicente Wolfe.
Down With Comforters! Sara Ruffin Costello 2011
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It is El Tovar, the rustically majestic hotel that has afforded me the luxury of rolling out of a plush bed at sunrise, shuffling in my slippers down a carved oak staircase, and stepping outside to have the Grand Canyon pretty much to myself.
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With the ball softer and challenged by Tim Paine and Steve Smith, a pair on the fringes of selection, and then by Stephen O'Keefe, a young left-arm spinner, the seam bowlers broke ranks, abandoned their disciplines and began to pay the price, banging the ball into the middle of the pitch so that Smith and O'Keefe were able to carved their way, rustically on occasions, but effectively for all that, to half centuries.
Ashes 2010: England's back-up bowlers state claims against Australia A Mike Selvey in Hobart 2010
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Choi has scoured around for the best artisanal stuff, with rustically exotic flavors like purple-hued mugwort (earthy) and greenish pine needle (bracing).
Barry Yourgrau: Finding Seoul Between a Hipster Bar and a Night Market Barry Yourgrau 2010
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Choi has scoured around for the best artisanal stuff, with rustically exotic flavors like purple-hued mugwort (earthy) and greenish pine needle (bracing).
Barry Yourgrau: Finding Seoul Between a Hipster Bar and a Night Market Barry Yourgrau 2010
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It is El Tovar, the rustically majestic hotel that has afforded me the luxury of rolling out of a plush bed at sunrise, shuffling in my slippers down a carved oak staircase, and stepping outside to have the Grand Canyon pretty much to myself.
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Choi has scoured around for the best artisanal stuff, with rustically exotic flavors like purple-hued mugwort (earthy) and greenish pine needle (bracing).
Barry Yourgrau: Finding Seoul Between a Hipster Bar and a Night Market Barry Yourgrau 2010
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It is El Tovar, the rustically majestic hotel that has afforded me the luxury of rolling out of a plush bed at sunrise, shuffling in my slippers down a carved oak staircase, and stepping outside to have the Grand Canyon pretty much to myself.
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Choi has scoured around for the best artisanal stuff, with rustically exotic flavors like purple-hued mugwort (earthy) and greenish pine needle (bracing).
Barry Yourgrau: Finding Seoul Between a Hipster Bar and a Night Market Barry Yourgrau 2010
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Not far from our table, two rustically-thatched huts sagged beside a stick-and-wire fence.
Receiving end of a Mexican rodeo (recibimiento á las fiestas taurinas) 2007
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