How To Use Dapper In A Sentence

Instantly Maryse Rose could picture Lefitte's dapper clothing, the immaculately creased trousers, his heavily brilliantined hair. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take. We Shall Not See His Like Again
As he entered the stage with coiffured hair and a dapper pin-striped suit, I didn't know what to expect, but he was amazing and had the entire audience, blue rinse brigade and all, on their feet applauding his efforts.
A dapper man with an aristocratic air, he was boyishly handsome, compulsively social and intensely creative.
A dapper man with a moustache and a wide smile, he seems familiar. Times, Sunday Times

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How can the dapper little bureaucrat be so brazen? Times, Sunday Times
He's a dapper little geezer. Times, Sunday Times
As a girl, she did everything she was supposed to do: she was a Southern belle who married a dapper genius once he became rich enough to keep her.
In the early 19th century the dapper first Duke of Wellington commissioned a low-heeled calf boot of soft leather.
A small dapper gentleman two seats away knocked back a shot of something and exhaled an invisible sweet cloud.
Ovid and Apollodorus agree that Æsacus was the son of Priam, and that he was changed into a didapper, or diver, but they differ in the other circumstances of his life. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
He grew into a dapper and debonair-seeming man who modelled himself on the film star Ronald Coleman.
Knots of smiling men, dapper in their dhaka topi hats, press their palms together to greet old friends. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
She disapproved of his toddling walk, his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats and general appearance of over-emphasized dapperness. The Man from the Bitter Roots
The stranger, having wiped the pen, presented it to the dapperling, who more debonnairly breathed his vein.
He'd even led me up a flight of stairs, singing a little ditty, seemingly spry and agile and as dapper as any day in his six decades as an entertainer.
His dapper appearance and smile belied an awkward personality.
However Theodore acknowledges that it might be the case that it's not hat-wearing that makes a man civil, dapper and courteous; it could be civility, dapperness and courtesy that make a man wear a hat.
One account of Pierre Vigny makes reference to his dapperness and specifically mentions his silk britches
Though he was little taller than herself, she was conscious suddenly of how thick and steely he was beneath his dapper garments, and of a kind of snaky will-power in his face. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
The racegoers go all out when it comes to the style stakes with the boys in their dapper pinstripes and the girls with their elegant head pieces.
Proust entered after 2am, dapper and strange, "blinking like a night-bird", as someone once said of him, and he soon got into a markedly unfriendly conversation with Stravinsky about Beethoven's late quartets. Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
So he will never be where the fathomless manhole awaits, where the safe falls from the high window shrieking like a bomb-he is a pilot through Earth's baddest minefields, if we only stay close to him, be where he is as much as we can-yet Maximilian's doom is never to go any further into danger than its dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel .... Gravity's Rainbow
A dapper man with a moustache and a wide smile, he seems familiar. Times, Sunday Times
He is dapper in a suit and tie, looking like a five-star hotel manager. Times, Sunday Times
Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity .... Emerson and Other Essays
Well, two of my local councillors showed up - both dapper chappies, a younger bloke with a furrowed brow and an older gentleman with the finest quiff I have ever seen on a man over 60.
Dapper, charming, and handsome, with a full head of sandy hair that greyed attractively over the years, Felt resembled actor Lloyd Bridges.
He is a small, dapper man (suit, tie, shiny shoes), and I have a feeling he is rather vain.
Latin name of the diver, or didapper, ‘mergus,’ by saying that it was so called, ‘a mergendo,’ from its diving, which doubtless was the origin of the name, though not taking its rise in the fiction here related by the Poet.] The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
The dapper sophisticate, Fred Astaire, once noted: ‘The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.’
Here a pearl-gray homburg is a signifier of dapperness, there a totem of an affair.
He's a dapper little geezer. Times, Sunday Times
He is so afflicted at her death, that he throws himself into the sea, and is transformed into a didapper. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
They used to be called freight forwarders but now they are known by the more dapper term, logistics companies.
If anyone can get you looking spruce and dapper, Maxine told me, it's Carol.
Looking dapper in a suit and tie, he showed off the boyish good looks that won him the role. The Sun
The book had to be written by Captain Kangaroo, what with his penis, vagina and dream planets conjunct in Leo with his cherry red chipper dapper coat to match. The Definitive Book of Love, Unabridged
Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art.
There's a dapper old gent with a blazer and a cravat sitting two seats head of me.
Like Tatum, Dzhabrailov was a dapper, ambitious man and the two hit it off for a while.
With its blend of rusticity and sophistication, the 15 th-century coaching inn has been remodelled and is very much a dapper, food-and-wine-centred affair.
But it is worthless compared with the priceless items that were taken, like didapper and nautch. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
His striped tie could have come straight out of prep school, with a patterned pocket square to finish a dapper summer look. The Sun
While the first day on Delhi University's north campus saw students in dapper denims, hipsters, halter tops, knee-length skirts, and everything hip that you can think of, there was one thing that was truly Indian.
He is neat and dapper, quietly spoken and usually dressed in a suit. Times, Sunday Times
He is dapper in blazer, cane, sharp hat and regimental tie, which he wears with a tie clip.
A tin of shoe polish used to be essential kit for any dapper gent. The Sun
His dapper mod dress code contradicts the sweaty confrontationalism he projects on stage (and just off - any open dancefloor space is by rights his as well).
The most common shorebirds were American Oystercatcher and Willet in dapper summer plumage, but at least one Killdeer also winged by.
And a certain witty, dapper silver fox is looking like he may be the ad man plummeting to his doom in the opening credits as Don Draper watches on with a certain relaxed detachment, arm draped, as it were, over the back of his sofa. William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later
He is neat and dapper, quietly spoken and usually dressed in a suit. Times, Sunday Times
Looking dapper in a suit and tie, he showed off the boyish good looks that won him the role. The Sun
Franklin looked dapper in his gray pin-striped suit.
And he did, but all the time his eyes were on Berenice, who was caught up by one youth and another of dapper mien during the progress of the evening and carried rhythmically by in the mazes of the waltz or schottische. The Titan
He is thoroughly dapper: all straw boater and braces and a good line in patter.
He was a dapper guy, and he always had a little feather in his hat.
Them Yankees went out o 'sight quicker' n a didapper duck. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
A pretty bird-like woman whose daughter resembled her, she looked precise and almost dapper in a chocolate-coloured pencil skirt and flowing blouse.
If we stood off th 'little didapper all night, you know we can all day. The Cruise of the Dry Dock
Visiting here is like spending your vacation in a vintage shop. Old men in dapper Fedora hats and antique Italian shades haunt Harnet Avenue, the palm-studded main drag in Asmara, the capital.
A short while later it was opened again and a very dapper gentleman in English tweed opened it up to me.
How can the dapper little bureaucrat be so brazen? Times, Sunday Times
A tin of shoe polish used to be essential kit for any dapper gent. The Sun
At the president's house, Holbrooke, who is 6 feet 2, gave the dapper, coiffed Zardari a big bearhug. Our Man in Afghanistan
Physically, I'd expected a dapper man with a fine line in suits and irony.
The old didapper," began Bildad, somewhat irreverently, "infested this here house about twenty year. Heart of the West [Annotated]
Yet he is reasonably photogenic, cutting a dapper figure in a Western business suit.
Rat remains his dapper, timeless self.
But no one approaches and I begin to feel rather lonely with the room almost full, with most male journalists wearing dapper suits. Times, Sunday Times
Co-owner Chris Puttnam said the fabric makes for dapper clothes that aren't as precious as the knickerbockers that have had a resurgence lately among English cyclists. Easy Riders
Dit is ook uit hierdie universiteit dat sulke dapper stemme van waarskuwing en verset teen die apartheids-leer gekom het soos die van 'n B B Keet, Ben Marais, Johan Degenaar, Andre Hugo, Andre du ANC Daily News Briefing
He is dapper in blazer, cane, sharp hat and regimental tie, which he wears with a tie clip.
A long red ostrich plume sprouted back from the hat giving him a dapper appearance that befit the captain of a ship.
A small, dark man, dapper and debonair, swallow-tailed and top-hatted, was waltzing about the stage with dainty, mincing steps, and in a thin little voice singing something or other about somebody or something evidently pathetic. Amateur Night
But no one approaches and I begin to feel rather lonely with the room almost full, with most male journalists wearing dapper suits. Times, Sunday Times
If I recall correctly, he was wearing a blazer and appeared a very dapper 73-year-old.
Beyond the purely practical there are more dapper variations of this apparel for spoiled horsey to wear on special occasions such as gymkhanas.
These days the director of the Edinburgh International Festival is a dapper figure with three distinguishing features: shiny pate, gnomish beard, sober suit.
He was of dapper appearance, point-device in everything, and he reminded you of a perky robin. The Certain Hour
It's George Clooney's powers of suave dapperness that have made him a great big movie star.
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He had tucked a polka-dotted ascot into the throat of his denim work shirt, accentuating the dapperness that seemed to originate from his hair. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
He surveyed the two; Jarvis was tattered and scratched, but apparently in better condition than Leroy, whose dapperness was completely lost. Valley of Dreams
Bob describes him as a tall, dapper gentleman who called himself a mercer.
Edward was a dapper dresser, and he liked people to pay attention to such things - for their own sake, and because he liked the idea of style.
He was undoubtedly a dapper figure, with bouffant hair and a winning smile. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, York's Elvis impersonator Eddie Vee will swap his rhinestone jumpsuit for a dapper two-piece when he takes to the stage as Buddy Holly.
Even Barney came out dapper, in his best salesman's suit, of a silvery stuff without a fold or pucker anywhere. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
A dapper American in white jacket and smart shirt and tie greeted me.
He propped it against the legs of a chair, that the dapperling might view his own magnificence.
He's a dapper little geezer. Times, Sunday Times
He is thoroughly dapper: all straw boater and braces and a good line in patter.
At the opposite end a dapper gentleman tips his hat and bows to this smiling little lady.
Soprano Inva Mula is an exceptionally strong and vocally expressive Marguerite, and tall, imposing bass-baritone Paul Gay is ideally cast as a dapper and ironic Mephistopheles. Less Is More for 'Faust'
and Bobby giggled as she peered from the window to watch the dapper Mr. Pizotti and Lily Pendleton walk down the street side by side. The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
Sitting on the edge of a table as powder is brushed on his forehead and face, he looks dapper in a navy suit, light-blue tie, black dress shoes and trench coat.
A glamorous adventure-woman, she was pictured in sepia photos wearing all manner of dapper outfits: grinningly flying planes and sailing sloops; giggling atop tall mountains; grimacing in thickest jungle; and jovially smoking pipes while waving swords and spears of all sizes. Unearthly Asylum
Persons who observe them, as they fly, call to mind how Æsacus, the son of Priam, was changed into a sea bird, called the didapper. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
The Olympic star looks dapper in a suit in his first official picture for the show. The Sun
Hercule Poirot is the dapper detective of the Agatha Christie novels.
Small and dapper with a permatan, he has been described by one acquaintance as resembling a cheesy US Senator.
I was slim and dapper in my green cavalla cadet uniform with the gleaming brass buttons. Renegade's Magic
With tailored suits and ties as bright as a skyrocket, he's dapper.
Well, two of my local councillors showed up - both dapper chappies, a younger bloke with a furrowed brow and an older gentleman with the finest quiff I have ever seen on a man over 60.
The Captain was a dapper little man with a neat moustache and shiny shoes.
He was compact, mostly black, and quite dapper.
Fred is a dapper, chatty, white-haired man in, I guess, his mid-seventies.
He is dapper in a suit and tie, looking like a five-star hotel manager. Times, Sunday Times
The dapper pink gladioli I planted last spring near the boxwood hedge had finally bloomed, the blush-pink peonies—unfashionable but one of my favourites—were out after I had given up on them, and the air smelled of fresh earth and honeysuckle. Exit the Actress
With tailored suits and ties as bright as a skyrocket, he's the Dapper Don.
A dapper man in contrasting winter shades, beige scarf at a jaunty angle, he marches across the nosherie floor to greet me.
The dapper little Catholic coal merchant with his homburg and pipe and his women. 52449_CLARA
There was a completely delightful visage of writers from dapper individuals bedecked in bowtie and hats in jaunty angles to those disheveled ‘deer caught in the headlamp stares’ as newly published authors; hard to fathom that their manuscript had caught the imagination of a publishing house, clambered onto stage to face hundreds of admiring fans. Writers Festivals as Professional Development « Write Anything
With his impeccable grooming and his dapper dress sense, he's the kind of young man that most fans would be only too happy to bring home to mother.
I don't buy the idea but McKellen, with his fluidity of movement and blend of dapperness and danger, executes it perfectly. The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington
A pugnacious manager opens the door and leads us to a living room filled with people - Palmer's son and daughter, his wife, and the man himself, looking dapper in brown leather shoes and a blue Savile Row shirt.
Look out for the dapper gent in a bowler hat tinkling the ivories in an East End boozer.
GRANVILLE; at the other, the dapper figure, with its indescribable air of old-fashioned gentlemanhood, the light of his smile shed impartially on the benches opposite, but his slight bow reserved for the MARKISS, as, leaning across the table, he pinked him under the fifth rib with glittering rapier -- this is a sight that will never more gladden the eye in the House of Lords. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891
The dapper, silver-haired Frenchman had a celebrity status akin to a rock star among followers the world over.
To my left was a rather dapper man, distinguished in dress and demeanor.
Even Barney came out dapper, in his best salesman's suit, of a silvery stuff without a fold or pucker anywhere. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
He was neat and dapper when I saw him in 1995 in Kansas City, where he was filming the movie of that name.
A dapper, compact chap, the very British man has been in Thailand for many years as a financial advisor, but this was very different from his early career path.
Connery is resplendent in his timeless dapperness throughout the adventure, so the game itself is looking like something of a 60s style piece from an aesthetic point of view.
He sits on a folded towel grumbling and mumbling away and, in spite of it all, still looks neat and dapper most of the time.
A dapper man with a moustache and a wide smile, he seems familiar. Times, Sunday Times
“This one, too, which you see, as it cuts through the sea, and having its legs drawn up,” pointing at a didapper, with its wide throat, “was the son of a king. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
All the smiling dapperness that had made him seem like a monkey to The Ladybird
a dapper young man
To them Bruce's genius was incontestably proved by the faultless evenness with which he parted his hair behind, the dapperness of his boots, and the merit of his spotless shirts. Julian Home
The brides reflect the styles of the day, with the stiff starched elegance of the grooms' dapper morning suits also forming a real contrast.
Smaller and more slightly built than most police officers, he is of dapper appearance and quick intelligence. The Bullet Catchers
O'Neill, dapper in his mandarin suit and collarless white shirt, does not look like the rushing blur of today's press men.
He was undoubtedly a dapper figure, with bouffant hair and a winning smile. Times, Sunday Times
He was a strange little dapperling, scarcely five feet tall.
And a certain witty, dapper silver fox is looking like he may be the ad man plummeting to his doom in the opening credits as Don Draper looks on with a certain relaxed detachment, arm draped, as it were, over the back of his sofa. William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later
In appearance he is slim and dapper, a man of medium height invariably dressed in expensive American suits that nevertheless contrive to look cheap.
After his early dalliance as the dapper darling of the international community, in his karakul cap and cape stylishly draped over a statesman's grey flannel suit, Karzai proved his skill as an Afghan trader. Christopher Mailander: Karzai's Next Feat
To turn up at County Hall looking dapper and spruce would have been to strike a false, jarring note of misplaced optimism.
With his dapper suits and Bohemian cravats, Demarco quickly became an instantly recognisable figure on the Edinburgh arts scene.
He was dressed in a dapper chalk-stripe suit, and despite its being late afternoon, his white shirt was still as crisp as if he'd just put it on. Dance Of Death
Between the polo shirts, V-neck sweaters, and chinos, these dapper gents could double up as Ralph Lauren models.
He is the ultimate example of drug-fuelled rock 'n' roll excess, the other is a douce, dapper pillar of Scotland's literary establishment.
The small man, the dapper man with grey suit, grey tie and clean white shirt put out a hand to support me.
May the dapperest, weediest man win. Times, Sunday Times
He was undoubtedly a dapper figure, with bouffant hair and a winning smile. Times, Sunday Times
The Olympic star looks dapper in a suit in his first official picture for the show. The Sun
He looked dapper in a blue suit, jacket unbuttoned, showing a stomach distended as if he had swallowed a basketball.
An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth.
In the _Peri Bathous_ Pope included Welsted as a didapper and an eel. Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast
An accompanying tower of sweet potatoes separated with parsnip purée and bedecked with haricots verts is downright dapper, as is a spray of crunchy shaved parsnip curlicues.
Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity. III. Essays. Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
She loves Anthony, a dapperling in person, with nothing to recommend him physically but a missy prettiness.
Smaller and more slightly built than most police officers, he is of dapper appearance and quick intelligence. The Bullet Catchers
Played by Strother Martin of all people, looking more dapper, plumper, less degenerate than you remember him from Cool Hand Luke. Lance Mannion:

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