How to Use aw-shucks in a Sentence
aw-shucks
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But there was always more to Aydın than his aw-shucks dimples.
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Moisés Naím,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Bridgeman doesn’t speak with arrogance but with a calm, aw-shucks confidence.
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Brody Miller,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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How Maye and his aw-shucks demeanor became a big-play bully in leading one of the game’s most prolific offenses.
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Chad Graff,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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That’s more like it, although Haaland reverted to his refreshing aw-shucks demeanor when asked about his latest brace of goals.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
26 June 2026
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And because Bargatze is usually the butt of his own jokes, his mix of aw-shucks relatability and self-deprecation goes down nice and easy.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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And Reilly is aces at playing aw-shucks-who-me innocence while Gary enjoys the best of both worlds, as his friend Eric slyly points out during a dinner party.
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Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Mar. 2026
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An aw-shucks countenance barely hiding a righteous anger that seeks to pile-drive progressive California into submission.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Yet another of the co-scripters, Rousouli amps up the Leonardo DiCaprio, perfect-hair, aw-shucks boyishness to hysterical funny heights.
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Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
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That amnesia helped make possible both Jimmy Carter’s aw-shucks presidency and the Reagan revolution.
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Christopher Hooks,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
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Especially Harbour, which checks out, seeing how showrunner Steven Conrad claims to have built the series around the actor’s perpetually warm, aw-shucks persona.
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Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2026
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What makes the show defy expectations, though, is the aw-shucks personalities of the young British duo at its core, improbably named Richard Young and Sam Strange.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2026
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That puts her in conflict with Elliott Emerson (Richard Thomas), a local realtor who rules the community organization with an aw-shucks demeanor that masks a cage fighter’s spirit.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2026
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So far, the closest person the 2020s have to fill that slot is Glen Powell, a native of the Lone Star State blessed with a smile that melts butter and and aw-shucks amiability.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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Played by the versatile Domhnall Gleeson, in a performance that couldn’t be more different from his memorably unnerving turns in The Patient and Black Mirror, incoming Truth-Teller editor-in-chief Ned Sampson has a sort of aw-shucks, pre-Ozark-Jason-Bateman vibe.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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