CITY SLICKER Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

city slicker

noun

as in cosmopolitan

a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers with their snotty attitude, the city slickers quickly wore out their welcome

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Recent Examples on the Web Over the months since Baldwin was recharged earlier this year, the defense had quibbled over and over about evidence, discovery and tactics with what has sometimes seen like a battle of locals versus city slickers. —

Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 July 2024 Everybody knows each other there, news travels fast and city slickers — with their cynicism and logic and skepticism — rarely intrude. —

Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 4 July 2024 Thinking Urban-rural divide: Are city slickers or countryfolk better at navigation? —

Big Think, 24 June 2024 The thrust of the film appears to be city slicker Edgar-Jones and hometown hero Glen Powell taking on a natural disaster, like if Sweet Home Alabama was remixed with Volcano. —

Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for city slicker

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