ADJECTIVE
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sensible and practical
has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem
her earthy common sense
How To Use down-to-earth In A Sentence
- So why should down-to-earth, hard-headed Lancastrians be convinced by the marketing of this toolkit?
- Practical and down-to-earth, he's a bit of a joker and Paul's only friend outside the observatory.
- I'm quite a down-to-earth guy but these things really touched me. Times, Sunday Times
- Sometimes you worry with such a big name but he is a down-to-earth bloke with no airs or graces. The Sun
- LEAD (9) [STEPHEN GRACE] 22, a fairly normal young man, intelligent, sensitive, down-to-earth, a bit shy (he thinks he has the social skills of a 15 year old) but appealing, Stephen is a film student who's had a fairly average life, with the exception of the tragedy of his older brother's death in a car accident seven years ago. Undefined
- Highlighting class differences to emphasize his own down-to-earth roots is nothing new to Dole.
- You're a down-to-earth kind of person. Times, Sunday Times
- He was a very down-to-earth person. Times, Sunday Times
- This was the language of the English and Scottish Enlightenment: sober, unemphatic, good-humoured; a very sociable and moderate language, modern in a way that even we would recognise, and supremely rational and down-to-earth.
- Byas is a down-to-earth bloke, as much at home on the family farm as he is in the cricket spotlight.