rustical
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Shall we, I say, have no recreation? or must our recreations be ever clownish, or childish, consisting merely in rustical efforts, or in petty sleights of bodily strength and activity?
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
Mr. Mockmode! what a rustical expression that is!
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
The drawing was full of rustical suggestion, touched here and there by a harsh realism that did but heighten the general harmony.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
My doublet hath a less rustical cut and is of different stuff from any seen hereabout, and my hose and boots fit—which could not be said of them in olden times.
From A Maid of Many Moods by Virna Sheard
She did not like country company; the rustical society and conversation annoyed her.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
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