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 Barrow, Isaac

She did not like country company; the rustical society and conversation annoyed her.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

“I am afraid you do not like my name, sir,” says I, annoyed with myself to be annoyed with such a rustical fellow.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But accost them with honest freedom, and with that customary, and though rustical, most gracious proffer, of the kissed hand, and they withhold neither their hands in turn nor their acquaintance in an honest way.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles

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 Sheard, Virna