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In lesser parts, Eddie Albert is often overly bumpkinish as the traveling salesman, but Miriam Hopkins is a convincingly shrewish Mrs. Hurstwood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blame must be placed, since he is top boss, on the Sun's bumpkinish, pumpkinish Publisher Silliman Evans, righthand man to Owner Marshall Field.

From Time Magazine Archive

She lamented that I had been brought up in the country, which, she observed, had given me a very bumpkinish air.

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny