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Meanings of cityfied in English

Being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person.

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Examples for "citified"
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The magic of youth stole out of the citified night upon her.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
2
You-all are goin' ter be larnt citified manners hot off the bat.
Peggy Stewart at School
3
He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
4
She was never going to change her name to something citified and highfalutin.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
5
Concrete would register as foreign matter here, something citified and imported.
A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
1
The whole country round was filled with wonder to his city-bred eyes.
Lo, Michael!
2
Vladimir says all city-bred women and girls are anæmic from doing nothing.
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
3
Even Gloria, a poor little city-bred angel, must muse upon the statement.
The Everlasting Whisper
4
Now in the city-bred youth this excited state of mind is chronic, permanent.
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
5
The little city-bred girl distinguished the visitor from a country man at once.
A Man's Woman
1
But when the city-born children come to Mooseheart they come into their own.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
2
His city-born and bred son inherited the insidious idea.
If You're Going to Live in the Country
3
Harry, by the way, was a city-born bushman, who had been everything for some years.
The Rising of the Court
4
They originate closer to nature than city-born men and seem to spring from the very soil.
A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas
5
She could not be city-born, Tanner had realized.
The Scar
Usage of cityfied in English
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I ain't like these cityfied folks. Philip brushed at a fly crawling on his forehead.
Wench: a novel
2
The village beaus scornfully called him "cityfied," and secretly longed to be like him.
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
3
You certainly do not look very cityfied!
Heidi / (Gift Edition)
4
They have such a cityfied air.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
5
Indeed, some of the fashions called "countryfied" are equally "cityfied," if we judge by the extent of the usage.
Etiquette
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It does look kinder CITYFIED-andI reckoned that was all the good it was.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
Cityfied through the time