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dandy

[dan-dee] / ˈdæn di /


NOUN
man obsessed with his style and clothing
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That’s all fine and dandy, but you are mid-project, so what can you do now?

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

All seemed just dandy until both eagles left their nest unattended, and ravens swooped in.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 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

It was the young dandy who had brushed past me on the train, now standing so close I nearly brushed shoulders with him.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

It may now seem faded and artificial, but its inhabitants were aesthetes and dandies, and artificiality was the whole point.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2020

Nowadays, the phrase “the Regency”calls to mind BBC images of spotlessly dressed dandies, lascivious rakes and Elizabeth Bennet look-alikes chatting and flirting at the Brighton Pavilion.

From Washington Post May 29, 2019

The men are all of them dandies, smoking pipes and wearing colorful cravats at the neck.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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 Albert Payson Terhune

“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 Ridgwell Cullum

“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

As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy--a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts.

From Time Magazine Archive

That suggests the dandiest thing for us to put on the mock Christmas tree for her.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry




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