Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not urbane; uncivil; discourteous; unpolished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Uncivil; unpolished; rude. Opposite of
urbane .
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- adjective
uncivil ;unpolished ;rude
Etymologies
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Examples
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If either party persists in refusal to confirm, and cannot show injury, that party's behavior is declared inurbane.
The Galaxy Primes 1927
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Here is the celebrated passage about "Wragg is in custody," the text of which, though no doubt painful in subject and inurbane in phraseology, is really a rather slender basis on which to draw up an indictment against a nation.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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"If the eminent doctor's manner appears a trifle inurbane of our tastes, we must bear in mind that the doctor may be from a place, or a stratum, not so meticulous in these matters.
The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966
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Just it would be, "pursues the author," and by no means inurbane; but hardly, perhaps, Christian. "
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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