plummy

Example Sentences

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Virginia Woolf then got into the act, criticizing the BBC Home Service as middlebrow, despite its newsreaders’ plummy Oxbridge accents.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

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

Set to a voice-over of an actor reading the passage in a plummy English accent, the skit featured two actors who were, bizarrely, each dressed as the musician Prince.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

Philby answers confidently, in the plummy tones of the English upper class.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell