modish

Example Sentences

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Now he is being played by Omar Sy, wearing a more modish, but equally dashing, flat cap and trench coat ensemble.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2021

“It was as if the newer, more modish performance practices had shaken his convictions about his own straightforwardness just enough to undercut his effectiveness,” John Rockwell wrote in The Times in 1980.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021

“Portraits of an Era” parades modish men and women.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2019

The fair plaintiff wore a white shirt waist, a dark cloth skirt, a modish straw hat trimmed with black feathers and veil, and brown gloves.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2019

The modish bonnet with curling white feathers seemed to her uncle a crowning affront.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare