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

In all, 172 delegates will be chosen along a heavily urban corridor that seems to favor the citified Trump and his front-running campaign.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2016

“I ain’t as good as Jimi Hendrix,” he said, “but he play them citified blues, anyway. I’m thinking about writing a blues number for you. I’m gonna call it “The Serious Stink Blues.”

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers