citified

Example Sentences

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Produced by country music explorer Sturgill Simpson, “Country Squire” is full of lessons learned on the “country music highway” about camper retirement, citified country boys and the hard work of commitment.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019

Hoover’s men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019

The stranger reminds viewers that, in the West, “dude” is an insult—the naïve and citified dandy who’s a mere tourist or poseur in a place of rugged action and broken-in casualness.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018

Overall urbanization stands at 59%, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, with Guangdong — the most-populous province — the most citified: Its urban ratio is 70%.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2018

Mary Alice and I carried the tale home that a suspicious type had come off the train in citified clothes and a stiff straw hat.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck