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In Kuta, a popular town in Mandalika, scrappy surfers' hostels have been replaced by a mosaic of chlorinated pools and plushy sunbeds, and an international school for the children of expats.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
But even indoors, it was impossible to escape the animals’ presence: There were photos of dolphins, dolphin cartoons and a plushy toy sea lion.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Out of the depths of her dripping hair and her big plushy bath-towel little Eve Edgarton considered her father only casually.
From Little Eve Edgarton by Raymond Moreau Crosby
In the plushier Victorian parlors, the stereoscope had been a favorite gadget.
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
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
A wartime casualty among the plushier prep schools last week was Connecticut's Avon School, formerly Avon Old Farms.
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
Boeing says the Stratocruiser can fly 100 passengers, in the plushiest kind of comfort, from New York to London in eleven hours; from New York to Los Angeles in seven.
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 program: the Nat "King" Cole Show, starring the tall, courtly $500,000-a-year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records.
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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