Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner or style of a dandy; as a dandy; foppishly; daintily.

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  • adverb In a dandy way.

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  • adverb in a dandy manner

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Examples

  • Intrigued, I checked out the trailer for the film, which contains lots of dandily-dressed fellows doing those elephant trunk skids in picturesque settings.

    Contests and Con-Tests: Men Behind Curtains BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • He was a hideous little man with eyes like pins, shaggy eyebrows, a nose that swelled at the end and was pinched by the sharpest of pince-nez, cheeks that hung white and loose except when he was hungry or angry, and then they were tight and red, a little body rather dandily dressed with

    Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

  • He was a dandily rigged-out fellow, young and lusty, and all healthy from the land and land victual, and he looked round him with a sneer at our sea-tatteredness, and with a fine self-confidence.

    The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

  • In fact, he owns a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, dandily equipped with four cigarette lighters and a bottle of perfume from Paris.

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  • Kerry Collins has filled in just dandily for the AWOL Vince Young.

    Sports Central | Articles and Columns 2008

  • Essentially, this is one movie in three parts: a very wacky, oddly toned prologue, a dandily entertaining body and a handsomely mounted, but almost unnecessary coda.

    Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2008

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