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cush·y

 (ko͝osh′ē)
adj. cush·i·er, cush·i·est Informal
Making few demands; comfortable: a cushy job.

[Hindi and Urdu khuš, good, from Persian; see esu- in Indo-European roots.]

cush′i·ly adv.
cush′i·ness n.
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cushy

(ˈkʊʃɪ)
adj, cushier or cushiest
informal easy; comfortable: a cushy job.
[C20: from Hindi khush pleasant, from Persian khōsh]
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cush•y

(ˈkʊʃ i)

adj. cush•i•er, cush•i•est. Informal.
1. involving little effort for ample rewards; easy and profitable: a cushy job.
2. soft and comfortable.
[1910–15; probably cush(ion) + -y3]
cush′i•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.cushy - not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
easy - posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"
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cushy

adjective (Informal) easy, soft, comfortable, undemanding, jammy (Brit. slang) He's had a very cushy life so far.
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Translations
مُريح، سَهْل
lehký a příjemný
letmagelig
òægilegur
lengvas
izdevīgssilta vietiņaviegls

cushy

[ˈkʊʃɪ] ADJ (cushier (compar) (cushiest (superl))) a cushy jobun chollo, un hueso (Mex)
to have a cushy life or timetener la vida arreglada
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cushy

[ˈkʊʃi] adj [lifestyle] → peinard(e)
a cushy job → un boulot de tout repos
to have a cushy time → se la couler douce
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cushy

adj (+er) (inf)bequem; to have a cushy time of it, to be onto a cushy numbereine ruhige Kugel schieben (inf); a cushy jobein gemütlicher or ruhiger Job; that job is a cushy numberin dem Job reißt man sich (dat)kein Bein aus (inf)
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cushy

[ˈkʊʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fam) a cushy jobun lavoro di tutto riposo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cushy

(ˈkuʃi) adjective
easy and comfortable. a cushy job.
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In 2014 Marques offered to plead guilty if he was tried in Ireland in a desperate bid to swap a harsh life sentence in a US penitentiary for a cushier term behind bars here.
(It took Jack's prodding to change those practices.) Hiring students to clean the toilets in rich students' dorm rooms, as Renowned did--it attracted poor undergraduates to do that work by paying them slightly more than students with cushier jobs--is no way to melt social-class boundaries.
The law-abiding citizens of this country have been let down by successive governments for decades, with shorter sentences and cushier jails for criminals, our political elite, loony left liberals and human rights lawyers are out of touch with the common people.
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He went into the ranks as a kind of penance...." But instead of a mortar he is given a wooden replica--for the moment a cushier assignment than bearing a rifle or anti-tank rifles, as the soldiers assigned to them discover when the weapons unexpectedly turn up.
A KILLER who brutally murdered an openly gay man while he was asleep could be moved to a cushier jail.
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The chartered coach that pulled into the parking lot of Raleigh's Martin Street Baptist Church at 4:30 a.m., half full of people who had woken up even earlier in Goldsboro, was cushier than the interstate buses civil rights activists took back in the 1960s.