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    urbane


    1. his speech, but of the most urbane and metropolitan variety


    2. The more ―progressive‖ among us are likely to interpret such eyesores in a different light; as oddly urbane or reflecting the attributive characteristics of a multidimensional society


    3. Pleased perhaps, by the prospect of attracting a new coalition of voters, (Yankee) Republicanism, traditionally urbane in its demeanor, was nevertheless determined to preserve its (own) political identity that generally embraced liberal viewpoints as they related to domestic and social issues


    4. Strong, urbane, incredibly beautiful;


    5. cultivation of the most urbane and civilized attitudes, do we regress to


    6. The party also turned to the urbane Shashi Tharoor, aware that he might lend some gravitas to their side in debates


    7. Then something very nice happened: my translation of Papa's book didn't come back, but instead arrived an urbane letter expressing a kind of reluctant willingness, if you can imagine the mixture, to publish it


    8. "Urbane" on the lips of Jacob had mysteriously all the shapeliness of a character which Bonamy thought daily more sublime, devastating, terrific than ever, though he was still, and perhaps would be for ever, barbaric, obscure


    9. Wortley, always urbane, always in time for the overture, buttoned his gloves, and admired Miss Clara


    10. Rather than his urbane businessman self, he seems more a savage mercenary forced to wear a suit

    11. ” The ghost of a smile vanishes and his face is once again a smooth, urbane mask


    12. Papa Roach isn’t Fae, serves as the urbane owner of Chester’s spy network and has been doing so for thousands of years


    13. When the urbane owner of Chester’s stalks in, the accusations escalate, all now directed toward him and his sleight of hand


    14. Barrons is animalistic and primeval, Ryodan is urbane and professional


    15. “As a matter of fact, there is,” Buonaventura said; and although his manner was as urbane as ever, she detected


    16. All his urbane self-possession had vanished


    17. I know not what came over me, that Mr Plan was allowed to be chosen, for I never could abide him; being, as he was, a great stickler for small particularities, more zealous than discreet, and even more intent to carry his own point, than to consider the good that might flow from a more urbane spirit


    18. Maybe he was beginning to crack up beneath the new urbane exterior, and that served Salander’s purpose


    19. ‘Anyhow he gives large parties,’ said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete


    20. He looked handsome, urbane, as if he’d just stepped from the pages of Town & Country, and his crooked smile had lost its menace

    21. Just bear in mind, you can look intelligent, witty, urbane, handsome, and well dressed, or you can wear flares


    22. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity


    23. She began with a good portion, but she liked it so much that she took another of the same size, and she was lamenting the fact that urbane etiquette did not permit her to help herself to a third, when she learned that she had just eaten, with unsuspected pleasure, two heaping plates of pureed eggplant


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    Synonyms for "urbane"

    polished refined urbane suave smooth unctuous oily voluble flowing

    "urbane" definitions

    showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience