plushy
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or resembling plush.
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Informal. characterized by luxury, wealth, or ease.
a plushy resort.
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There’s 1X with it’s plushy gray Neo and Sunday Robotics with its baseball-cap wearing Memo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
In Kuta, a popular town in Mandalika, scrappy surfers' hostels have been replaced by a mosaic of chlorinated pools and plushy sunbeds, and an international school for the children of expats.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
“They’ll still be soft and plushy, but it cuts down on the hair floating around the house,” he says.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Overhead plushy letters say “This Must Be Heaven,” a 1977 hit by the R&B band Brainstorm.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
He had fallen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches.
From Aaron's Rod by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A wartime casualty among the plushier prep schools last week was Connecticut's Avon School, formerly Avon Old Farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the plushier Victorian parlors, the stereoscope had been a favorite gadget.
From Time Magazine Archive
As business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one of Manhattan's plushier galleries last week, the brown-velvet hush was deeper than usual, and the corners darker.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he first went to work for Acme Newspictures in 1923, he never got the plushier assignments, because he refused to wear a necktie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canada's courtly Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent paid his first call on President Eisenhower last week and Washington rolled out its plushiest red carpet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plushiest employe profit-sharing plan in big corporation history last week was announced by Beech Aircraft Corp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war.
From Time Magazine Archive
He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
And this is about the plushiest affair you could imagine; bright orange and black, and half an inch thick.
From On With Torchy by Foster Lincoln
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