[ UK /mˈɒdɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. in the current fashion or style
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How To Use modish In A Sentence

  • At this point, however, the quartet was wandering in a perfumed garden of psychedelic modishness, and all the better for it.
  • In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces
  • The insides are modish to a fault, but not eccentric in the way the exterior will be. Times, Sunday Times
  • But in the Sixties, as some of us know, wearing modish flat shoes could be as much an act of insolent opposition as a fashion statement.
  • “Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf. Flashman on the March
  • Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
  • He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
  • It is, she says, an admission of defeat, buying into the currently modish idea that men and women are fundamentally different and so can never live together in any kind of equality.
  • Gradually, though, I realized, that Luz, the school's elegant, middle-aged director, and modish, twenty-five-year-old Luis could talk on or join us for comida (the big afternoon meal) because they weren't rushing off somewhere. Eight surprises from a senior year abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • It is bliss, Lindsay House, a set of elegant Georgian rooms where you can eat a menu that is both seasonal and resolutely un-modish: braised hare with polenta, rabbit terrine, pike and eel pâté, braised chicken with colcannon.
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