They also have a modish, edgy look to them which lends them an air of unfamiliar exoticism. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Again, a certain kind of modish appearance seems important. From Wordnik.com. [Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies] Reference
As a party we were presentable, though not modish. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
And "is the new" was the newest meta-modish motto. From Wordnik.com. [Hilary Moss: 2010 Is The New...Year] Reference
I wouldn't be modish, or plug you into boring genres. From Wordnik.com. [lazarus Diary Entry] Reference
For decades, Hennes & Mauritz has clothed the "hip & modish" in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [H&M's Material Girls] Reference
Lady Dolly turned a modish head to greet them from the front of the box. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
(That was a subtle touch by the writer, parenthetically using modish, meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Verb] Reference
Pinwell, the pink of gentility, had given her the modish airs of a lady of quality. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The latest creation from André Balazs is a New York branch of his modish Standard hotels. From Wordnik.com. [I'll Take Manhattan] Reference
It could hardly be supposed that anything out of fashion would be of interest to such modish folk. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Starkweather were dressed in the most modish of gowns -- as elaborate as those of fashionable ladies. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
It is so obvious that many modish Mammas care much more for their daughters 'bodices than their souls. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891] Reference
Peregrine sat behind his own desk and Alleyn and Fox in two of the modish seats reserved for visitors. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
A modish velvet throat-band, such as is shown by No. 63, is one of the most graceful conceits of fashion. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
As for modish concepts such as citizen journalism, that's about as attractive an idea as citizen dentistry. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse James, Mindy McCready, Ricky Martin: Why Even Nazi Gay Sex Tape Stories Can't Save the Press] Reference
The restaurant, with about 25 seats, has bright-purple walls and modish decor straight out of "The Jetsons.". From Wordnik.com. [Fast Food, Asian Style] Reference
The in-the-know Snob, rather than calling a wine “full-bodied,” uses the more modish term “extracted.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Wine Snob's Dictionary, Volume 1] Reference
Fashion Week has hit Colombia with South American's designers sending modish creations down Medellin's runways. From Wordnik.com. [Colombia Fashion Week: Glow-In-The-Dark Caftans, Colorful Swimwear & Glittery Lips (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference
A picture which any rural gentleman could see from his front door, smacked too little of art for the modish town. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896] Reference
They are nice throngs, healthy throngs, care-free throngs, modish throngs in the modes of magazine advertisements. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
By selecting a shorter coat equally modish, as shown by No. 37, the too tall woman shortens her figure perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Goethe's Divan or Schopenhauer's Buddhist interest, but mostly in merely modish pseudo-Oriental styles and subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
She wore girlygirl clothes, which were close enough to the everyday fashion to seem agreeably modish when she stood up. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
But what really drew a few wide-eyed gasps — and a lone clap — from the modish onlookers was the abundance of color. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar de la Renta Warms Fall Fashion, Anna Wintour] Reference
I find that I truly appreciate surfing some of my usual suspects to see what modish new sites are driving the zeitgeist. From Wordnik.com. [Cory Treffiletti's Digital Influentials. MediaBizBloggers.com] Reference
And assuredly there was never an age in which man so masked his nature under modish innovations as he does in the present. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Philip eyed with furtive approval the modish shirtwaist, turned back at the full brown throat, and the heavily coiled hair. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Verily, EUGENIUS, the story requires but the 'decorative art' of the literary sentimentalist to make it moving, even to the modish. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892] Reference
As he came toward his mother you noticed a stain on his coat, and a sunburst of wrinkles across one leg of his modish brown trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
A hair-dresser arranges, at least once a week, the hair of the modish woman if her maid does not understand the art of hair-dressing. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Besides it is a spotless white outing coat, rough, and to quote the words of the clerk who helped her select it, "exceedingly modish.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and Her Religion] Reference
Her bonnet, which had perhaps once been pretty even if never quite modish, had clearly shielded its wearer from one too many rainstorms. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
New, modish forms of behaviour are being tried out as South Africa switches via multiracial polls from a straitjacket of white rule to a black-led unity government. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
So hip that my wife, Michele, wants me to get a t-shirt made up that reads: "Born in Astoria" so no one mistakes my shaved head as a feeble attempt at modish credentials. From Wordnik.com. [Power (outage) to the People] Reference
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