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Meanings of
citified
in English
Being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person.
cityfied
city-bred
city-born
Related terms
urban
Synonyms
Examples for "
cityfied
"
cityfied
city-bred
city-born
Examples for "
cityfied
"
1
I ain't like these
cityfied
folks. Philip brushed at a fly crawling on his forehead.
2
The village beaus scornfully called him
"
cityfied
,
"
and secretly longed to be like him.
3
You certainly do not look very
cityfied
!
4
They have such a
cityfied
air.
5
Indeed, some of the fashions called "countryfied" are equally
"
cityfied
,
"
if we judge by the extent of the usage.
1
The whole country round was filled with wonder to his
city
-
bred
eyes.
2
Vladimir says all
city
-
bred
women and girls are anæmic from doing nothing.
3
Even Gloria, a poor little
city
-
bred
angel, must muse upon the statement.
4
Now in the
city
-
bred
youth this excited state of mind is chronic, permanent.
5
The little
city
-
bred
girl distinguished the visitor from a country man at once.
1
But when the
city
-
born
children come to Mooseheart they come into their own.
2
His
city
-
born
and bred son inherited the insidious idea.
3
Harry, by the way, was a
city
-
born
bushman, who had been everything for some years.
4
They originate closer to nature than
city
-
born
men and seem to spring from the very soil.
5
She could not be
city
-
born
,
Tanner had realized.
Usage of
citified
in English
1
The magic of youth stole out of the
citified
night upon her.
2
You-all are goin' ter be larnt
citified
manners hot off the bat.
3
He had a
citified
air about him that ate into Tom's vitals.
4
She was never going to change her name to something
citified
and highfalutin.
5
Concrete would register as foreign matter here, something
citified
and imported.
6
Salmon-colored houses with blue roofs wore already a faintly
citified
air.
7
People come on deck in strangely conventional clothes and with demure
citified
airs.
8
Not everything was
citified
in the matter of sanitary arrangements.
9
In people's stiff,
citified
clothes lingered a smell of wet fields and sprouting woods.
10
The soft and
citified
Greeks are no menace to us.
11
True, he was gorgeous, in a
citified
,
sophisticated way.
12
It has a lively business for such a small place-thingsreally look quite
citified
there.
13
He was a
citified
man, like Sam-buthow different!
14
Isn't that
citified
silk-blend blazer hot without Vegas air-conditioning to duck into? I asked in turn.
15
He was the only one who failed to tell me I looked well in
the
-
the
citified
costume.
16
He won her away with his glitter and plume And
citified
ways, while the lover did fume.
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citified
Adjective
citify
Verb
Indicative · Past Indefinite
Frequent collocations
awfully citified
citified clothes
citified coach
citified costume
citified man
More collocations
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