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Meanings of rusticity in English

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rusticitat

The quality of being rustic or gauche.

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      Usage of rusticity in English
      1
      Simple rusticity and ignorance are the chief characteristics of the country people.
      Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wa...
      2
      I am vexed beyond measure that he should have seen such rusticity.
      Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
      3
      It equally reprobates an ungainly rusticity, and a mincing, tripping, over-soft manner.
      A Treatise on the Art of Dancing
      4
      And the boys-how would they accept this rusticity and probably self conceit?
      The Girls at Mount Morris
      5
      We look for rusticity in the village, and for elegance in the park.
      Flowers and Flower-Gardens / With an Appendix of Practical Instr...
      6
      There is no boisterous rusticity here; all is dainty and refined.
      Pictures Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the World's Ar...
      7
      She was quite a long way removed from the rusticity that was his.
      Jude the Obscure
      8
      When you go back to the regular glass, you have rusticity.
      Reuters
      9
      This ignorant rusticity is discovered to have charms and attractions of its own.
      George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso...
      10
      Eat neither garlic nor onions, lest the smell betray thy rusticity.
      Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
      11
      Of course he had betrayed his ignorance and rusticity in a hundred little ways.
      Tom Tufton's Travels
      12
      It is of capacious dimensions, but is built in a style of unappropriate rusticity.
      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,...
      13
      We have no simple rusticity of scene, no cowslip and buttercup humility of seclusion.
      The Poetry of Architecture / Or, the Architecture of the Nations...
      14
      We turn rather to the "refined rusticity" of an English Parsonage home.
      Wordsworth
      15
      He was country bred, and he had never outgrown a certain rusticity of appearance.
      The Short Line War
      16
      The wild branches of the hawthorn and sweet-briar added to the rusticity of our asylum.
      The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers
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