plummy
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“I’ve been a garden-variety political commentator for most of my career,” he said in a plummy Sydney drawl.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2024
These days, clusters of plummy Concords, oval autumn royals and dusky kyohos are decorating dinner tables, doubling as cornucopian decorations and low-effort snacks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Forget every store-bought version: This is deeply plummy, pleasantly sour, possibly citrusy, with a slight spicy bite.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
The Times, ever devoted to its vision of L.A.’s plummy future, wrote pages and pages about real estate, larding its stories with words like “stately mansion” and “palatial dwelling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
“Wish I’d brought a brolly,” she drawled in the plummy, educated tones of the Oxbridge colleges.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
The accent might have been plummier, but his position has been remarkably consistent, even though he has faced mockery, saying that people thought his views were "bonkers".
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Her diction is pungent; the tone has her familiar echoey depth — far plummier than Schwarz’s Brangäne — if fewer sumptuous colors.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Derek shut his eyes, adopted a plummier version of a Scouse accent and claimed to be a spitfire pilot.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
In “Slow Horses,” those with the plummiest accents are almost always the least trustworthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
In 10 Years of Location, Location, Location on Channel 4 tonight, television's plummiest pair present "a nostalgic evening of property-themed viewing."
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2010
So far, this hasn't been the plummiest of fall TV seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a curious but exhilarating experience to hear the Bohemians, the playboys of Central Europe, interpreted in the roast-beef-and-plum-pudding style of the Philharmonic at its beefiest and plummiest.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 by Sir Owen Seaman
