dandy
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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
Wherever the crowd, the dandy is always with us.
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
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
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
Warblers are the diminutive dandies of the birding world.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022
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
Husky young dandies bowed to young women in long, bright-colored dresses.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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 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
There's not a dandier, better pal anywhere, than what Chum's been to me.
From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
“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
Christopher Isherwood, that permanently promising young man, seemed during the '30s to be the two dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Isn’t this the dandiest band in the world?” sighed Billie in supreme content.
From Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck by Janet D. Wheeler
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