plummy
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At one point, Melanie Field, who plays Sonya, mocks the plummy British sound of Bonneville’s Vanya.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
“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
Forget every store-bought version: This is deeply plummy, pleasantly sour, possibly citrusy, with a slight spicy bite.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
His perfect manners and plummy tremolo of a voice never came across as entitlement.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 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
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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
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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 Seaman, Owen, Sir