Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dandify . - adjective Characteristic (in dress and habits) of a
dandy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
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Examples
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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.
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The dandified man might be a stereotype, but it's still very real.
Menswear's Formal Acceptance Tina Gaudoin 2011
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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 2010
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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 Michael Hiltzik 2010
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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 2010
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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.
Archive 2010-02-01 Steve 2010
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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.
Marie Connor Leighton Steve 2010
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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 2008
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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.
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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 Michael Hiltzik 2010
bilby commented on the word dandified
"When I was quite sure in my own mind I judged it my business to disappear, and I reached this city by a mighty queer circuit. I left Paris a dandified young French-American, and I sailed from Hamburg a Jew diamond merchant."
- John Buchan, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'.
August 28, 2009