urbane
adjective
having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities.
urbaneness
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a word derived from
urbane.
Example Sentences
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Tom Lehrer – The Hunting Song This is the anti-Seeger, earthy sentimentality replaced by sardonic urbaneness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2010
Says he: "Our goal is to offer our customer the essence of urbaneness and taste."
From Time Magazine Archive
But can anyone say that the members of the government—the bureau chiefs frequently fare even worse—meet in the parliamentary debates with that urbaneness of demeanor which characterizes our best society?
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
And Hazlitt, though he is very readable, has neither the urbaneness, nor the science, nor the learning, nor the wide grasp of life and of history that characterizes the three above-named.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett
"Anything to do with village crime—we make that our special subject," the curator informs you with a pleasing urbaneness.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
