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folksy

adjective as in informal, simple

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It’s how the sport has gone ruthlessly pro—but people still act like it’s some folksy campus endeavor when it suits their motives.

“That was just stunning to me,” said the folksy Collinsworth, still lanky and boyish at 66.

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Harnick had a way of expressing deep universal truths in the most natural, folksy manner possible.

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Gone is the eatery’s unofficial mascot, that folksy fellow in coveralls who enjoys leaning on a wooden barrel.

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The performance is taciturn and nonverbal; he’s got a mouthpiece in Will Patton’s folksy narration, but what Edgerton is doing is worth leaning in for, complex and fascinating.

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