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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
down-home
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bubba's Grill serves authentic, down-home cooking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was her vocal anti-meat stance that turned the country establishment's down-home snub into redneck outrage.
▪ Hartley's letter is chock full of down-home metaphors that question the intelligence of your readers and our customers, the musicians.
▪ I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.
▪ In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
▪ It comes from her personality, which can make you feel like a down-home lemonade or a fine Chablis.
Wiktionary
down-home

a. (context chiefly US English) simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle. alt. (context chiefly US English) simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.

Usage examples of "down-home".

Hepworth was making his own notes on what the president was wearing, whether his shoes were shined, how firm his handgrip was, and how genuine the easygoing, down-home grin so familiar from hundreds of telecasts was.

Not from her ex-partner, but from her ex-life, so Mr Down-Home Spark - the genial skilled tradesman who could read books and knew who Krzysztof Kieslowski was - would be both lap-dog and bit of rough until she'd sorted herself out.

He believed in aggressive, creative campaigns, and was so cocksure about everything that a lot of people, especially in a down-home place like Arkansas, found him hard to take.

All these other folks was playin' the same ole down-home blues we was used to.