agrestic
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The funniest and most agrestic of all his paintings were, undoubtedly, the cows -- a snook cocked at Picasso's heroic Spanish bulls.
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Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates.
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"Nobody in their right mind, unless they are taking the piss, is going to say, 'I went on an agrestic retreat,' " he says, "because you've got the word rural to do it for you."
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Matisse's prewar paintings, with their naked figures in glades of pure color, their utterly deceptive, agrestic simplicity, are the link between Poussin's world and the modern one.
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Cowley retreated into solitude, where he found none of the agrestic charms of the landscapes of his muse.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
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