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dandy

[dan-dee] / ˈdæn di /


NOUN
man obsessed with his style and clothing
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He did not elaborate on whether Washington would take any action, but told reporters that "everything's gonna work out fine and dandy" in the region.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

That’s all fine and dandy, but you are mid-project, so what can you do now?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 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

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

They loved the grooming, but sometimes they were a little shy of the dandy brush when we came close to tender spots.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

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

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

Men wore leopard print, too: The late-18th-century British macaroni dandies, as in Yankee Doodle, were fond of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2018

The Belle-apartment doors reopen, and his dandies push in massive bell jars that hold three dress stands.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

Oh, Mother!—she thinks it just the dandiest thing going.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey




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