preppy
Example Sentences
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“I viewed the brand for preppy styles geared to an older generation,” said Lavinia Gabriele, a 26-year-old New Yorker, who works in retail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Having gone to Ault on scholarship, Lee recalls that “I always felt I was implicitly apologizing for not being sufficiently rich and preppy and privileged.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025
The crowd in the dining room was a mix of older and younger, but most people were dressed on the preppy side in gingham and Ralph Lauren.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2024
In 1987, David Letterman was taping his late-night show in Las Vegas before rowdy audiences of mostly young men in preppy pullovers and muscle shirts — prototypical bros raised on “Porky’s.”
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
I thought again about Ashley with her pearls and sweaters and wondered how I had gone from searching for that preppy beauty to a New Age tattoo artist named Agent.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
