Similar words: Familiarity breeds contempt, crusty bread, city boy, daybreak, hybridity, anticipatory breach, parity bit, security blanket. Meaning: adj. being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person.
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1. The officer was city-bred and educated, so that the false teeth appeared to him in a different light.
2. The event was held to provide city-bred children with opportunities to learn about Japanese traditions and cultures through experiences such as reaping rice, organisers said.
3. He was city-bred, and she was country-bred; she often said she wanted her boys to have their papa's nice ways.
4. City - born and city-bred , I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or something you occasionally visit during the week - end.
5. She was rough, and he was gentle- city-bred, as she always said.
6. The white stubble on his fleshless jaw was a reproach to my twenty-four years and suddenly I felt an inadequate city-bred softie.
7. Why not turn it into a place for hiking and riding horses along quiet trails, for kayaking and rock - climbing, a place where city-bred teenagers can encounter nature and learn to survive in it?
8. Sometimes that's been good, but many times it has turned a remote location that only ever saw cowboys into a small city, with concrete, powerlines and plumbing to serve the city-bred visitors.
9. A poll conducted by one of the Games sponsors found that almost 70 percent of city-bred Indians will closely follow the action in Beijing despite a clash with India's cricket tour of Sri Lanka.
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