as in folksy
having or showing an unpretentious informality
her down-home patter as she prepares comfort foods goes over well with television viewers
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Recent Examples of down-home
Taylor Swift spent the game in a box with the Haim sisters and Ice Spice, loyally watching her team go down to defeat, in a down-home Daisy Dukes outfit.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
The Lone Star State is one of endless possibilities—in food and adventure—with a healthy dash of down-home kindness.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 14 Jan. 2025
For Robbins, this down-home practicality is the point.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
At Henrietta Red in Germantown, the raw bar and restaurant’s atmosphere and chef/co-owner Julia Sullivan’s menu feel simultaneously down-home and elevated.
—Jessica Ritz, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
The Lone Star State is one of endless possibilities—in food and adventure—with a healthy dash of down-home kindness.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 14 Jan. 2025
For Robbins, this down-home practicality is the point.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
At Henrietta Red in Germantown, the raw bar and restaurant’s atmosphere and chef/co-owner Julia Sullivan’s menu feel simultaneously down-home and elevated.
—Jessica Ritz, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for down-home
Adjective
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Throughout her life, Baez—now 84—has stayed true to her folksy-casual style.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
16 Jan. 2025
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The decor was folksy and colorful, with the brief for the flowers by Wild Gorse being unstructured ’70s.—
Rebecca Cope,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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In Settings, users can choose from among hundreds of homespun labelling tools that flag or block certain posts in their feeds.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Wrapped in coppery light and homespun outfits, her Nell is warm and wise, going some way toward filling the void where a more substantial story ought to be.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Down-home.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/down-home. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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