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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The chairman of Meituan, one of China’s biggest tech companies, gave Cheng a plushy kangaroo, the corporate mascot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In Kuta, a popular town in Mandalika, scrappy surfers' hostels have been replaced by a mosaic of chlorinated pools and plushy sunbeds, and an international school for the children of expats.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
The rich plushy, plumelike branches grow in regular whorls around the trunk, and on the topmost whorls, standing erect, are the large, beautiful cones.
From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir
A wartime casualty among the plushier prep schools last week was Connecticut's Avon School, formerly Avon Old Farms.
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
Martha Raye, hippo-mouthed comedienne, was victimized by a busy Manhattan jewel thief who was cleaning up in plushier neighborhoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the plushier Victorian parlors, the stereoscope had been a favorite gadget.
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
Prize example: With a merry toot at the thought of British austerity, the 34,183-ton Cunard liner Caronia steamed out of New York harbor last week on the plushiest pleasure cruise in a decade.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Britain's plushiest royal-carpet treatment, usually reserved for His Majesty's closest allies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best up-&-coming girl with a style all her own is doe-voiced Evelyn Knight, who has a pull in Manhattan's plushiest nightclubs second only to Hildegarde.
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war.
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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