mondain
Example Sentences
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Even so, Judt preferred what he called the more mondain tone of Oxford to Cambridge "cleverness", and said later that he had been tempted to return to Oxford, but never to his own alma mater.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2010
That world was brilliant, distinguished, sometimes artistic, sometimes merely mondain.
From Love at Second Sight by Leverson, Ada
One morality by itself, L’Homme juste et l’homme mondain, contains some 36,000 lines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
