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He is very much a successor to former City Council President Sherri Lightner, who had a folksy protectionist approach to the job.
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He talked quite a little, and he seemed rather nice, I think—just frank and folksy, you know.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTER
Miss Carry is a lady worth talking about, and so is Miss Jenny—none of your turned up nose, poor white folksy sort.
ALONEMARION HARLAND
She's pretty and I will give in that she's folksy and sociable with us natives; it's surprisin', considerin' her bringin' up.
THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINEJOSEPH C. LINCOLN
Seems a pretty silly job for grown-up men, but they're real pleasant and folksy.
THE WOMAN-HATERSJOSEPH C. LINCOLN
She had on a blue wrapper, and her hair was pulled back smooth like little girls do when they want to look grown-folksy.
ROADS OF DESTINYO. HENRY
Set here and talked with me just as sociable and folksy as if she wan't wuth a cent.
THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINEJOSEPH C. LINCOLN
First thing, I knew he was smilin' folksy straight at me, and liftin' one hand hesitatin', as if he wanted to give me the hail.
SHORTY MCCABE ON THE JOBSEWELL FORD
Montgomery is just a comfortable, folksy, neighborly town, small enough to make hypocrisy difficult and unnecessary.
OTHERWISE PHYLLISMEREDITH NICHOLSON
Just then, though, she reaches out a pair of bare arms and remarks real folksy: "At last you've come, haven't you?"
TORCHY AND VEESEWELL FORD
WORDS RELATED TO FOLKSY
- breezy
- colloquial
- congenial
- cool
- democratic
- down home
- easy
- easygoing
- everyday
- extempore
- familiar
- folksy
- frank
- free
- free-and-easy
- homey
- improv
- inconspicuous
- intimate
- laid back
- loose
- low-pressure
- mellow
- mixed
- motley
- natural
- off-the-cuff
- open
- ordinary
- relaxed
- spontaneous
- sporty
- straightforward
- throwaway
- unceremonious
- unconstrained
- unconventional
- unfussy
- unofficial
- unrestrained
- urbane
- without ceremony
- artless
- being oneself
- candid
- childlike
- credulous
- direct
- easy
- folksy
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- homey
- ignorant
- impulsive
- inartificial
- ingenuous
- innocent
- instinctive
- laid-back
- naive
- plain
- primitive
- provincial
- real
- rustic
- simple
- simplehearted
- sincere
- spontaneous
- straightforward
- trusting
- unassumed
- uncontrived
- undesigning
- unembarrassed
- unfeigned
- unforced
- unlabored
- unpolished
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsophisticated
- unstudied
- unworldly
- up-front
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