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folksy
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folk·sy  (fks)
adj. folk·si·er, folk·si·est Informal
1. Simple and unpretentious in behavior.
2. Characterized by informality and affability: a friendly, folksy town.
3. Modest; low-key: folksy humor; a folksy style that masked a keen business mind.
[folks, pl. of folk + -y.]
folksi·ly adv.
folksi·ness n.
folksy
Adjective
[-sier, -siest] simple and unpretentious, sometimes in an artificial way
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Adj.1.folksy - characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"
cracker-barrel, homespun
rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
2.folksy - very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"
informal - not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"


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By the end of the century, Aalto, having been attacked by the generation of '68 for wilfulness and folksiness, was rehabilitated as 'a critical humanist' by some of the very people who had derided him in the first place.
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Critics who complain that these "horizontal" values have been realized at the cost of "vertical" ones, that mystery and a sense of the transcendent have disappeared among all the folksiness, need gently to be reminded of the difference between mystery and mystification.
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And while this new movie does not feature working-class Brits dropping their pants to cure the middle-age blues, it does contain the same whimsical formula and forced folksiness.
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