How To Use Dandyish In A Sentence

  • The dandyish and photogenic candidate regularly upstaged most of the other contenders in the name of art.
  • Leopardi grew up in the small town of Recanati, where his charming but stern father was the local grandee, a man who dressed in dandyish black every day and rued the day he had married his cold and religiose wife. Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing
  • This is the man's Edwardian aspect, formally old-fashioned and a little dandyish, that those who knew him in his later life fondly recall.
  • The owner, sensing that the room was poised between two ancient callings, waved his hand dandyishly toward the door. Times, Sunday Times
  • Box works his way dandyishly through a sequence of adventures which leads him to penetrate a secret Neapolitan crime ring, plus the willing rings of several secretive Neapolitans…. perniciously addictive piece of escapism. The Vesuvius Club
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  • He stunned Parliament as a young MP in the 1770s with his extemporary oratory and dandyish clothes. My hero: Charles James Fox
  • Suited, immaculately but not dandyishly turned out, dealing with photographers, a video interview and then me, with calm professionalism. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a career of more than 20 years, Mr. Hickenlooper directed several other feature films, including "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2002), with Andy Garcia in the role of a failed novelist who goes to work as a male escort for a dandyish boss played by Mick Jagger. George Hickenlooper dies: Emmy-winning director was 47
  • This third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, played the character as a dandyish James Bond, with gadgetry and purple cloaks being the order of the day.
  • There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
  • You've seen the last of Hosking in leather jackets and dandyish cravats interrogating pop bimbos under the guise of Sunday-night current affairs.
  • The anchor is a dour and dandyish aristocrat in a bow tie who reads the official version of the news in a monotone.
  • He's been wearing three-piece tweeds, looking both dandyish and ultra-modern. Fashion Highlights From 2011
  • He's been wearing three-piece suits, looking both dandyish and ultra-modern. Fashion's Top 10 Moments
  • On Sunday, Garmin—a Boulder, Colo., team known for its strict antidoping stance and its dandyish argyle outfits—captured the team-time trial event. A Loser's Winning Moment
  • The anchor is a dour and dandyish aristocrat in a bow tie who reads the official version of the news in a monotone.
  • They live in Francophone Africa and affect dandyish dress and a smart lifestyle, at once aping and ridiculing their former European rulers. Observing Fine Birds And Fine Feathers
  • Indeed Karelius, in opera cloak and one of Aranyos' dandyish suits, flattered himself he looked as distinguished as any.
  • The first model swaggered out on to the catwalk with long curly hair wearing a dandyish red frock coat and hat with a jaunty feather poking from it – this seemed like a nod to the label's absent founder. John Galliano Menswear on the catwalk, while he is in court
  • There is also James Watson Allen, a dandyish motorcyclist who dressed in top hat and tails to ride his Harley-Davidson in an interracial motorcycle club called the Northernites Riders of White Plains. Exhuming History
  • Dark, dandyish, dashing, brooding – it combined an extraordinary mixture of male arrogance and almost feminine beauty, emphasised by vivid clothes, peacock hairstyles and smouldering glances. Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
  • The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
  • He doesn't attempt the stammer, the dandyish manner, the cigarette ostentatiously clamped between the middle fingers.

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