Urbanely

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an urbane manner.

    "The other took the card from his hand, read it in a rapid glance, looked again at Newman from head to foot, hesitated a moment, and then said, gravely but urbanely, “Madame de Cintré is not at home.”"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an urbane manner wordnet

Synonyms

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gracefullygraciouslymannerly

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"The other took the card from his hand, read it in a rapid glance, looked again at Newman from head to foot, hesitated a moment, and then said, gravely but urbanely, “Madame de Cintré is not at home.”"

Etymology

From urbane + -ly. Piecewise doublet of urbanly.

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