dandy

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I hate the Patriots, and I hate doing this, and maybe down deep I’m thinking, given my prediction record, if I pick them they’ll lose and wouldn’t that be dandy?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

But the typical Victorian dandy was a young, often middle-class man, enjoying his wages and leisure before settling down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

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

The dandy, it turns out, is a local teenage fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who just happened to be at a real crime scene.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

Which was fine and dandy for her, I guess, if she wasn’t going to get punished for it!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver