citify

You're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute,   Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, 10 An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit,   I'd take an' citify my English.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

Wohlen had only begun its drive to citify the planet.

From The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer

You 're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I 'd take an' citify my English.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

You're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, 10Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I'd take an' citify my English.

From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations by James Russell Lowell

With these landmark records, Busby also introduced new citified subject matter to bluegrass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

He looked so at home in that citified bar in his ranch outfit I thought he might well be somebody famous.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

It results in the citifying of the country with cubistic signboards, barbershops, women in new-style clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive