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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

“I’ve got a dandy of a recital present for you. Better than flowers.”

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

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 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

I guess her eyes are just the dandiest things ever.

From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum




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