How To Use Dandified In A Sentence
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What if the dandified actor they had met that morning at the Tower didn't show up to honour his pledge of free tickets?
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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An embroidered silk waistcoat contributed to his dandified appearance.
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Worse, his cultured grammar and dandified manner could be immensely annoying.
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It was once said of Oscar Wilde that the dandified playwright's dinner party conversation was so dazzling, so perfectly phrased, it seemed Wilde had already written out everything he planned to say the night prior to the festivities.
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They regarded cigarettes as effete, dandified, even faintly foreign.
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His cultured grammar and dandified manner could be immensely annoying.
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And then, in the intervals between deaths, the family retired to a miniature house in St. John's Wood, where my dandified, Thackery-like grandpapa washed the dishes and avoided contact with his creditors.
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In The Maltese Falcon, the dandified villain is a corpulent homosexual with a lustful penchant for ancient art and gunsels.
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Mere mention of the French capital conjures images of turtle-necked poets brooding in starlit cafes, dandified flâneurs strolling the narrow boulevards and perfectly glamorous femmes sipping absinthe under gas lanterns.
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Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots.
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The teds are a dandified gang of toughs who terrorize the town, or at least like to think they do.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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As such varied examples suggest, à la zoug-zoug might best be understood as the central trope in Soyer's creative imagination, and in his dandified public persona, emblematic of his drive to distinguish himself — both to achieve distinction, and to do so by being different.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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Or does he impinge on our current consciousness as a dandified dilettante admired by his own period but of utter irrelevance to ours?
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Tall Sikhs, whose hair and beards have never known scissors or razor, and who stride along with a swagger and high-caste dignity; effeminate Cingalese; Hindoo clerks, smirking, conceited and dandified too, according to their own notions; almost naked palkee-bearers, who nevertheless, if there is the slightest shower, put up an umbrella to protect their shaven crowns; up-country girls with rings in their noses and rings on their toes; little
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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Nathan Lane scores in his Modern Family scenes as dandified drama queen Pepper Saltzman, whose overly overly fussy theme brunches ( "Oscar Wilde-and-Crazy," "Studio 54th-of-July," "Seder-Day Night Fever") have driven Cam and Mitchell to distraction.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Fancy a Boston publisher going about his business tricked up in this dandified dress -- a true New England jessamy.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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An embroidered silk waistcoat contributed to his dandified appearance.
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It's revealing that the dispute focused on David's virility, since Jones believes that Michelangelo despised Leonardo's filmy, dandified dress and his habit of androgynously blending male and female beauty.
The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones
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Before 1776, according to the historical sociologist Michael Kimmel, the perfect man was still a genteel patriarch, a dandified landowner steeped in the codes of the Old World.
Men’s Lib
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The latter dazzled him not only with his unconventional paintings (Delacroix posed for one of the dying figures in The Raft of the Medusa), but also with his dandified dress and dashing lifestyle.
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One imagines Dumas's young men about town affecting the same dandified, Anglophile pose.
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We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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And with the passage of paid-leave laws in Britain (where Prime Minister David Cameron took several weeks off to care for his infant daughter) and Australia (which is hardly a dandified nation), the U.S. is now the only wealthy country that doesn't bankroll a bonding period for either parent.
Men’s Lib
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I heartily disliked all the affectations which had been introduced by the dandified fops.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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To complete the dandified gentleman look: a camel suit, driving gloves and pony-skin loafers.
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She regarded the young man walking to meet her -- his rather dandified but sufficiently handsome figure resplendent in the latest and best cut of coat, waistcoat and hat, the newest thing in neckties about his throat, the ropiest arrangement of gold chain looped across his person -- with a severe expression of disapproval on her face.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
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The dandified man might be a stereotype, but it's still very real.
Menswear's Formal Acceptance
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Whether performing on stage or off, Astaire, like Marshall / Monescu and other dandified leading men, created an aesthetic of performance and fastidious elegance.
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The words ring strangely on the finicking, dandified lips of
The Common Reader, Second Series
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Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots.
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Mere mention of the French capital conjures images of turtlenecked poets brooding in starlit cafes, dandified flaneurs strolling the narrow boulevards and glamorous femmes sipping absinthe under gas lanterns.
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In book 1, The Rest Falls Away, vampires have always lived among them, quietly attacking unsuspecting debutantes and dandified lords as well as hackney drivers and Bond Street milliners.
SPOTLIGHT on Colleen Gleason (And Contest too!) « Urban Fantasy Land
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Brooks was clearly amused by her friend's dandified appearance, bone-thin in foppish drag, complete with masculine-cut jacket, high collar, monocle, bobbed hair and imperiously arched eyebrows.
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The men's dandified dress seems extremely unusual to us, with their long fancy coats with huge, decorated cuffs.
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Ives was a slender New Yorker with deep-set eyes and a dandified bearing who had been born to a family of socialites on December 25, 1828—hence his middle name.
Colossus
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The sight of this empty-headed dandified "masher" embittered me, and I reminded him rather brutally of ten shilling he had borrowed from me.
Hunger