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urbanely

/ur-beyn/US // ɜrˈbeɪn //UK // (ɜːˈbeɪn) //

城市地,城市,城市化,市区

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
    • : reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., especially in expression:He maintained an urbane tone in his letters.

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Examples

  • The show’s most urban, if not urbane, artworks are Pam Frederick’s “It’s in the Cards” collages, constructed from photographs of fortuneteller shops in Washington and New Orleans.

  • Slight beer belly and a measured voice, intelligent and urbane.

  • Grant says that a modern-day Jackie Kennedy, worldly and urbane, would have embraced the influences of various cultures in today’s America.

  • He is, by all accounts, brilliant; a dashing, urbane go-getter who exudes charm.

  • And menswear designer Michael Bastian created a world of gentlemen farmers and urbane dandies.

  • The year 2011 was particularly tough for the usually gracious and urbane president.

  • He's weird-looking, with a not very urbane, sentimental aesthetic; he's backed by a neighborhood bar band.

  • He was a light-hearted but serious and civilized man—urbane, to use an old-fashioned word.

  • Surely it is not urbane to throw on another the burden of saying that he likes not the smell or the inhaling of burning tobacco.

  • His name and paper, has a respectable credit, even among the urbane denizens of Wall street.

  • I would sit on the Liberal benches and watch him, and listen to his urbane voice, fascinated by him.

  • In New York, then, you are met everywhere by a sort of urbane familiarity.

  • The urbane storeman saved the situation by inquiring of the cook: "What will you have for lunch?"