Definitionadj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
Last update: April 12, 2018
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Everyone wants to know why the urbane city people have decided to move to our small town. [adjective]
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The magazine’s target audience is the urbane woman who is highly cultured and stylish. [noun]
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He is an urbane man. [adjective]
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He was a wiry, tall man, of beautiful manners and a singularly urbane demeanour, but he could not hide the annoyance which this letter caused him. [adjective]
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So far well; King Richard was very urbane, as bland as such an incisive dealer could be. [adjective]
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Had Wagner been a man of more urbane literary intellect he might have been less ambitious of expressing a world-philosophy in music-drama; and it is just conceivable that the result might have been a less intermittent dramatic movement in his later works, and a balance of ethical ideas at once more subtle and more orthodox. [Please select]
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She was urbane, but she was anxious to be rid of her, this young Mrs. [Please select]
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"You seem in haste, friends," said the curate, with an urbane smile. [Please select]
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And Vaux, suspicious of such urbane pleasantries, rang off and resumed his mutilated cigar. [Please select]
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