rustic
adjective
of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
rustical
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a word derived from
rustic.
Example Sentences
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Never, I vow, was a man so overcome with the society in which he found himself as this rustical clown of a justice.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
Shall we, I say, have no recreation? or must our recreations be ever clownish, or childish, consisting merely in rustical efforts, or in petty sleights of bodily strength and activity?
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
Neither is he very happy in trees, and such rustical produce; or, rather, we should say, he is very original, his trees being decidedly of his own make and composition, not imitated from any master.
From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray
"A rustical holiness," St. Jerome remarks, "is more valuable than vicious learning and criminal eloquence."
From The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe
Troth, nor I, he is of a rustical cut, I know not how: he doth not carry himself like a gentleman.
From Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
