hippy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hippy
Adjective
  • Harbor's enjoyably over-the-top Red Guardian continues to be a paunchy steal-stealer, Pullman scores a nice MCU debut as a complex mystery man, and Louis-Dreyfus reigns as a deliciously snarky antagonist.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • From the faded velvet booths, Instagram-happy tourists sidle up against paunchy men wearing trousers the same hue as their salmon terrine.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That’s not to say that the potbellied courthouse stooges of Norfolk County can’t rig the case.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Perun summoned a potbellied officer from the T.D.F. brigade to the operations center.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Torry’s candidly dumpy, dingy, dated, wood panel lined courtroom allowed for the placement of contemporary art and the banging of nails into walls which would have been forbidden in one of the ornate ground floor courtrooms.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The Slip concerns sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein, a dumpy sad sack who, after getting into a fight at school, is sent to live with his uncle in Austin for the summer of 1998.
    Lucas Schaefer June 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • The billboard, which faces north at 11th and Grand avenues, depicts Trump shirtless, flabby, and chest-deep in murky water, wearing a golden crown.
    Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 15 July 2025
  • There is a counterargument on Musk, rooted in two factors: One is that Musk’s disruption was aimed at a federal government that many Americans agree is swollen and flabby.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Squatting: If your provider approves, try squat exercises with gentle support.
    Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 17 July 2025
  • The sides fell from the packing crate, and the Roadrunner, a squat device that looked a little like a penguin, was propelled upward by two turbojets.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Butler is a victim of a sinister moral panic, one in which small and jealous spirits tore down the highest targets their stubby little souls could reach.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
  • But sadder yet is when a deer or rabbit decides to devour a young plant, leaving behind one stubby, leafless stick in the ground.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • So, a lumber sport competition may bring to mind big, burly Paul Bunyan types with facial hair and flannel shirts.
    Maayan Silver, NPR, 25 July 2025
  • An Amorim goalkeeper is typically a burly shot-stopper who has a reasonable-to-good command of his six-yard box.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 24 July 2025
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“Hippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hippy. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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