What is "urbane"

Usage examples of "urbane".

Taniquel, and behind her, the feline and arrogant Auster, the thickset, urbane man who had introduced himself as Kennard.

Zimmerman, of his easy grace, his urbane manners, his charming personality, his casual allusions to the places he had seen--Singapore, Calcutta, Moscow--mentioning them in about the same tone Dinny might have used when speaking of Oak Grove or Zanesdale or Unger.

Before the judge his manner grew urbane and reasonable, and he freely admitted the queerness of demeanour and extravagant cast of language into which he had fallen through excessive devotion to study and research.

Falsh remained urbane and attentive, but Trix noticed Sook and Tinya brace themselves.

Noel the urbane boy had grown into Noel the man and a calamitous stodge he was.

I might mention that urbane folk make up the membership of the Redemptionist Alliance, the Vitatis Cult, the Cosmic Peace Movement, Panortheism, a dozen more: all motivated by abstractions four or five or six times removed from reality.

New Yorker who operated his branch showroom only in the summer, was selling a car to an urbane and tweedy gentleman as Kiah walked in.

Cecil and Belloc sat around the table editing it and sticking triolets thrown of in hot haste into those nasty little spaces left by articles that did not quite fit, or supplying three or four articles and a Ballade Urbane while the printers waited.

He was an outdoor dilletante, tan and fit and urbane all at the same time, an eminently decorative guest.

By dazzling glimpses the white, urbane, anglicised villas winked at them from among the trees, and the long beach trailed a golden ribbon along the lacy edge of the sea.

And the district attorney gave Gillian his courtliest bow, his most urbane smile.

Gone now was the patient hunter of microbes and gone the urbane correspondent of Voltaire.

She had known others with the same urbane good looks and meticulous grooming, the light bantering tone and the steely glint in the eye.

Smithback felt a surge of anger when he saw Brisbane, looking urbane in a neatly tailored gray suit.

VOLUME TWO CHAPTER I A CORNER OF SOCIETY In a London drawing-room, where the murmur of urbane colloquy rose and fell, broken occasionally by the voice of the nomenclator announcing new arrivals, two ladies, seated in a recess, were exchanging confidences.