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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 colour, 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.

earthy Oxford Dictionary of English