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city-bred

city-bred \city-bred\ adj. raised in a city.

Syn: citified, city born.

WordNet
city-bred

adj. being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person [syn: citified, cityfied, city-born]

Usage examples of "city-bred".

As the speech continued, the eyes of the ranchers around the table were fixed with growing attention upon this well-dressed, city-bred young man, who spoke so fluently and who told them of their own intentions.

To see him in his coarse clothing, his huge boots, and his ragged cap, as he staggered with a pail of water from the well, or trudged in the cold and cheerless dawn out into the frosty field behind his team, gave the city-bred visitor a sharp pang of sympathetic pain.

Then he laughed down into the clear eyes, and said: `Why should not a chief of the Free People be preferable to a city-bred dog of Turan?