earthy
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This 100% Tuscan Merlot has earthy aromas of dark berries, peat moss and licorice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
On better days, she strolled up to it, even hugging its jagged trunk and inhaling the earthy scent to lift her spirits.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Slouchy hoodies over gossamer layers, wired cage-like corsets, an earthy milieu of silky, quilted and textured fabrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
“And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate/To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands ... /she did confine thee. . . into a cloven pine—” he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who’s words to him.
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
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Fans of her earthier material won't be disappointed, though.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kombuchas made from black tea and pu-erh, meanwhile, displayed richer, earthier aromas with more pronounced fermentation characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
But for those of us with slightly earthier tastes, she remains the indelible Barbara Kean of the bygone, Batman-adjacent “Gotham.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
And his 2001 album, “Step Right Up,” produced Top 40 country hit “I Want You Bad,” an upbeat love ballad that departs from his earlier, earthier anthems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
The taste was not the same as it had been the night before: it was earthier and richer, more sustaining and food-like, so to speak.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Where it runs into some turbulence — and despite the best efforts of everyone involved in director Eric Schaeffer’s accomplished production, it eventually does — is in its earthiest realm.
From Washington Post
Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Throughout, imbuing the earthiest, coarsest things with the highest spiritual ardor, run the passionate preachings of the "Apostles."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is in Waverly that Humphrey is at his earthiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce
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