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folksy

[fohk-see] / ˈfoʊk si /


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Masino had sought to update Cracker Barrel for a younger generation of consumers, including remaking its folksy logo and changing its menu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

And Ted, our folksy hero, is showing real growth.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

There’s kind of a folksy quality in the manufactured banter between a president and the ballplayers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

He has since reinvented himself as a man of the people, melding a relaxed, folksy style with slick social media videos.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

My parents loved him for how he could pepper an otherwise folksy speech with Shakespeare quotes and for the famous, mouth-stuffing vigor with which he ate fried chicken at community events on the South Side.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Fortunately, Nelson’s crew had folksier wisdom to dispense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2020

For many Koreans, there is a collective shame about the folksier elements of their own culture.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2017

The new “Voices of Pearl Harbor” tour uses a folksier approach, with acoustic guitar and ukulele music playing in the background as Bruner talks about the waterfront and Waikiki, circa 1941.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2015

Visions of a folksier Fleetwood Mac and Beach Boys come to mind, but their closing song “Hero” is a classic of its own accord.

From Time ● Jul. 7, 2014

It was always sixties music too—I recognized the Beatles and some of the folksier stuff you hear on the classic rock stations.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

With studied informality, the Donner Trail Ranch manages to be both the fanciest and the folksiest in the Reno area.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spirit Lake is distended by a cast of more than four dozen major characters cursed with total recall and the folksiest dialect since Mr. Dooley.

From Time Magazine Archive


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