urbanity
[ur-ban-i-tee]
Origin of urbanity
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Related Words for urbanity
hauteur, symmetry, culture, purity, polish, gentility, grace, nicety, cultivation, luxury, rhythm, breeding, grandeur, noblesse, restraint, delicacy, style, sophistication, refinement, felicityExamples from the Web for urbanity
Contemporary Examples of urbanity
For Shaftel this kind of licentious behavior amounts to “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity.”
British-born, he had a level of self-possession that seemed virtually Bond-like in the urbanity vacuum of CBS prime time.
Historical Examples of urbanity
Despite his visitor's urbanity, he was still a little nervous.
The AvengerE. Phillips Oppenheim
We manage to correct a stranger with urbanity and good humour.
Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleH. N. Brailsford
His tone had lost a little of its urbanity when he answered.
Galusha the MagnificentJoseph C. Lincoln
There was no trace of humour or urbanity now in Captain Blood.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
Urbanity he practised, not with jest and witticism, but by the courtesy of his demeanour.
AgesilausXenophon
urbanity
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