city slicker
Example Sentences
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Mostly that has meant pretending to be a Real American by riding horses, going hunting or driving around in a pick-up to prove they aren’t some effete city slicker.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
I’m gay, and I’m Black, and I’m a city slicker with no children.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022
A city slicker finds romance with a hunky ranch hand in the LGBTQ-themed TV movie “Dashing in December.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020
James was dirty and grumpy — a city slicker trying to learn to manage all the complex human and animal needs that suddenly had become his responsibility.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2020
Being a city slicker, he’d no doubt turn tail and beat it back to Terre Haute when we started bleeding out the first hog.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
