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earthy

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earthy
adjective
1 the cellar had an earthy smell:
soil-like, dirtlike.
2 preaching in the earthy Calvinistic tradition:
down-to-earth, unsophisticated, unrefined, homely, simple, plain, unpretentious, natural, uninhibited, rough, robust.
3 she was shocked by Emma's earthy language:
bawdy, ribald, off color, racy, rude, vulgar, lewd, crude, foul, coarse, uncouth, rough, dirty, filthy, smutty, unseemly, indelicate, indecent, indecorous, obscene;
informal blue, raunchy, locker-room, X-rated;
British, informal fruity, saucy, near the knuckle, close to the bone;
North American, informal gamy;
euphemistic adult.
antonyms decorous, proper, prim.