What's the difference between dysodile and earthy?

Dysodile


Definition:

  • (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

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Earthy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.
  • (a.) Gross; low; unrefined.
  • (a.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
  • (2) Despite its rich, earthy, nutty flavour, the taste is very delicate, and thus pairs really well with a sharp citrus reduction.
  • (3) Mammies are never sexual, poorly educated, and full of earthy common sense.
  • (4) It was visually stunning, brilliantly performed, moving, funny, political, earthy and broke the fourth wall in the totally Scottish comedia del arte tradition.
  • (5) Her Sophie Brzeska in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah was violently earthy, sexual: all the things a Meissen porcelain figure shouldn't be able to be."
  • (6) Joyce clearly left his mark on Brenton – you can sense it in the earthy, demotic language of his early plays – but other influences were less helpful.
  • (7) And his style is less free-form than Bill Clinton, who could display his earthiness and expertise in the same speech.
  • (8) Since the late 1970s, the English artist Linder has sculpted – or more accurately, in light of her signature photomontages, scalpelled into being – a persona and a body of work that are discreet as well as scandalous, earthy and visionary.
  • (9) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.
  • (10) Since then, he has found himself lauded as the more earthy counterweight to his mentor and writing partner Abbas Kiarostami.He plays quiet Georges Braque to his friend's more high-profile Picasso.
  • (11) This can be seen symbolically in pictures as a contrast between light with an upward trend towards heaven and darkness as an earthy mass with a downward tendency.
  • (12) And it continues today, the discourse and the amiable discord, by turns legalistic, linguistic, poetic, artistic, metaphysical, practical, transcendental, earthy, comedic.
  • (13) Bay leaves aren't a usual addition to a dessert, but their gently savoury aromatics really do work well in a dish which might otherwise run the risk of being over sweet – plus they're a great partner for the earthy blackcurrants.
  • (14) Even the most rickety-looking outfit will be doling out little bites of perfection: El Taco Yucateo , for instance, where we have panuchos as brightly coloured as a Keith Haring painting: yellow taco, chicken, bright pink cebollas curtidas (pickled onion), green avocado, earthy black beans.
  • (15) At one stage Klopp joked with Martin Ainstein, an Argentinian journalist with the deep, earthy voice of a Hollywood announcer.
  • (16) Its decor – a lifesize cardboard Sid Vicious, a motorbike in the eves, a skeleton tangled-up in barbed-wire in the cobbled beer garden – should give you a feel for this earthy, hard-drinking joint.
  • (17) A light red such as beaujolais or generic côtes du Rhône or a richer off-dry white such as a pinot gris from Alsace or New Zealand works better with the deeper, sweeter flavours that come from a tray of caramelised roast vegetables, while the meaty, earthy characters of slow-cooked vegetable stews with pulses are happiest with the same kind of robust reds (Aussie shiraz, Argentine malbec) you'd have with red meat.
  • (18) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.
  • (19) The concrete building – which was cast on the desert floor in panels and hauled up into place, giving it a gnarled, earthy texture – curves around the theatre’s stepped seating, forming a two-storey crescent (still awaiting its planned third floor).
  • (20) PBDS from five patients were morphologically fragile and "earthy" with alternating light and dark brown pigment layers with no evidence of a distinct central nucleus that may have been reminiscent of a different structure.

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