urbaneness
- 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
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 Bennett, Arnold
"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 Thomson, Hugh
And this has perhaps given to the eighteenth century an urbaneness from which its predecessor was largely free.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph
