adjective
Etymology
Origin of citified
Example Sentences
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Even now, few Woodstock locals know the precise location, though it is not far from the storied town that the citified Mr. Bowie derided on his first visit in 2002 as “too cute for words.”
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Produced by country music explorer Sturgill Simpson, “Country Squire” is full of lessons learned on the “country music highway” about camper retirement, citified country boys and the hard work of commitment.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019
The stranger reminds viewers that, in the West, “dude” is an insult—the naïve and citified dandy who’s a mere tourist or poseur in a place of rugged action and broken-in casualness.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018
The films are symptoms of the disease they purport to diagnose: manifestations of our troubled, citified response to anything natural, beautiful and not mechanical.
From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2017
That’s how citified I was in those days.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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