dandy
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Wherever the crowd, the dandy is always with us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 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
"I know you don't get much for £600 these days. But for me it was a life-saving amount of money. Life is now dandy."
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
The day that she saw him pass by her bedroom she thought that Pietro Crespi was a sugary dandy next to that protomale whose volcanic breathing could be heard all over the house.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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