dandy

The dandy existed to be seen, unless he was dodging his creditors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Divided by competing urges to “join in and stand out,” the dandy exaggerates style to the point of satire and social impertinence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Khan arrived on the red carpet in an outfit created by Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee - decked out with his own dandy cane, plenty of bling and sunglasses.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

Yet he acquired a reputation as a dandy, a clever humorist and an intellectual showman, distinctly apolitical and seemingly a man of no convictions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025

Grandpa Blakeslee bragged a lot about my daddy being such a dandy worker.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

France’s first postaristocratic dandies, the muscadins, Mr. Andersson tells us, were “foppishly dressed anti-Terror shopkeepers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

He donned a royal blue Valentino cloak that paid homage to Andre Leon Talley, former editor-at-large on Vogue whom Anna Wintour called "a dandy among dandies."

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

The collection was inspired by aviation, and there were tailoring traces from the golden era of flight when dandies like Charles Lindbergh made history with solo crossings of the Atlantic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

Warblers are the diminutive dandies of the birding world.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022

The following day I went up to Harlem, an area that had assumed legendary proportions in my mind since the 1950s when I watched young men in Soweto emulate the fashions of Harlem dandies.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Then maybe, just maybe, you could put in for the difference between the price of the humdrum machine and the price of the dandier dander remover.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

It has drawn lumbersexuals of the dandier sort — furniture designers, creative directors, advertising executives and weekend carpenters — who don their finest houndstooth and tweeds for the occasion.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015

There's not a dandier, better pal anywhere, than what Chum's been to me.

From His Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

“There’s surely not a dandier picture in the world than a girl sitting in the shade sewing—white things,” he said at last, by way of greeting.

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell

“The amazing Master Tool Corporation, a subsidiary of Fly-By-Night Industries, has entrusted who? Me! To show you! The handiest and the dandiest kitchen tool you’ve ever seen.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

“As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy — a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts,” he writes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

Of course, he looks great: a steel-grey silver fox, these days, but still flash in light parka and kick flares, quite the dandiest man in Blacks, the Soho club where we meet.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2010

Christopher Isherwood, that permanently promising young man, seemed during the '30s to be the two dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan.

From Time Magazine Archive

“If I didn’t think you were the dandiest river tripper in the world,” he exclaimed.

From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)