dandy
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All seemed just dandy until both eagles left their nest unattended, and ravens swooped in.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Suetonius recorded that Julius Caesar was “somewhat overnice in the care of his person,” and Elizabethan courtiers sported particolored slashed sleeves, but the dandy is a modern, urban phenomenon.
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
You may be a dandy dealmaker and a nifty negotiator, but you’ve got a bargaining habit that you should really curb.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
“We’re just fine and dandy, thank you. And what work is it you do now?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing dandy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Murder on the Orient Express
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