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plummy

[ UK /plˈʌmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. very desirable
    a plummy leading role
  2. (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich
    the radio announcer's plummy voice

How To Use plummy In A Sentence

  • a plummy leading role
  • This easy going, plummy and spicy blend is nice on its own or with a variety of foods.
  • Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels. A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Good, young red Rioja like this, made exclusively from the Tempranillo grape, can and does deliver a joyous light, zesty, plummy, intriguingly chocolatey mouthful.
  • His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.
  • Plummy amused the whole school, over 220 pupils, with tricks and jokes while Ivan performed his unsupported ladder act, which included juggling.
  • On the palate it's a middleweight, plummy wine, and the tannins are fairly soft.
  • One of the roses presently undergoing trials at Dickson's is a floribunda with petals of deep plummy-purple.
  • He is a bit shy and slightly plummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dr. Moreau forbids violence (but uses it to subjugate his half-animal "" children ''), doesn't eat meat (like Hitler, he's a vegetarian) and speaks with a plummy, overrefined English accent that seems taken from Robert Morley. Brando Plays God
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