bumpkinish

It's always created a slight distance between him and the intellectuals who think it sounds a little bit "bumpkinish," the way he speaks Russian.

Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure 1991

Earphones out, will he obligingly play his part and say he's disgusted at the nasty punk slagging off his lovely town and maybe say something terribly funny and bumpkinish about bowling greens or a best-kept village competition?

Archive 2009-02-01 Adam Macqueen 2009

While most Aussie blokes passing through the US think a liberal smattering of “crikey”, “strewth” and “onya” is a short cut to getting a leg over a flighty divorcee, or becoming the most popular guy in a bar full of strangers, most Americans are familiar enough with Australians to wonder why it is we feel compelled to play up our bumpkinish image in the company of foreigners.

Cheeseburger Gothic » JB’s travel tips. 2009

I imagine him at Phillips Academy, and then at Yale, trailed by a bad reputation as a string-puller and snubbed by the rich sons of East Coast families who find him useful but a little country-bumpkinish.

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

I imagine him at Phillips Academy, and then at Yale, trailed by a bad reputation as a string-puller and snubbed by the rich sons of East Coast families who find him useful but a little country-bumpkinish.

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

On the first page there was a photograph of Harry Truman, then president, looking bumpkinish as he waved a shoe aloft at an American shoe convention.

A Hero of Our Time Richler, Mordecai 1967

Horse-faced, with a lugubrious, bumpkinish smile that almost had a whimsical appeal.

The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

The common type of face at Cotrone is coarse and bumpkinish; ruder, it seemed to me, than faces seen at any point of my journey hitherto.

By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

She lamented that I had been brought up in the country, which, she observed, had given me a very bumpkinish air.

Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778

She lamented that I had been brought up in the country, which, she observed, had given me a very bumpkinish air.

Evelina 1778