All 4 Uses of
urbane
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- —Might I ask you what you are talking about? said Stephen urbanely.†
Chpt 2 *
- Donovan took leave of them urbanely.†
Chpt 5
- He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring.†
Chpt 5
- —My dear man, said Cranly urbanely, you are incapable, do you know, absolutely incapable of thinking.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(urbane) confidence from wide social experience -- typically said of a man