adjective
- Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent.
- usage: "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
- Not far removed from or suggestive of nature.
- usage: "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
- Hearty and lusty.
- usage: "an earthy enjoyment of life"
- Of or consisting of or resembling earth.
- usage: "it had an earthy smell"; "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean"
- Sensible and practical.
- usage: "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense"
- synonyms: down-to-earth
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