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urbanity

[ur-ban-i-tee] / ɜrˈbæn ɪ ti /


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But affluence and urbanity haven’t always played decisive roles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

The brand is a "superb combination of urbanity, hedonism and undeniable luxury," L'Oreal chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus said.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2023

I thought of the words "the urbanity of evil."

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023

It offered an accessible urbanity, a kind of cosmopolitanism for the common folk.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

"The gentleman will permit me to refer him to the Pension Office," returned General Granger, with the most smiling urbanity; "he will there find the more satisfactory answer to his queries."

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes

We urbanities are born gritty, born resourceful and imaginative, born with a strategic mindset and born competitive, with a drive to succeed.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2022

Novelist Naomi Alderman chats with inventor Saul Griffith, composer Brian Eno exchanges urbanities with forensic architect Eyal Weizman.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2020

These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French.

From Time Magazine Archive

His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is the worth of all Your state's supreme urbanities?

From Poems by William Ernest Henley


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