Noun : Your reply was a dandy. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a dandy vacation spot. From Dictionary.com.
Respectably clad in wool embroidered with scarlet, he wore a dandyish beard. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
MONTEFIORE: Voroshilov was his dandyish but brutal old friend, a lave turner turned soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Part 2)] Reference
His dandyish ways disappointed his father, who expected a son with true, Spanish masculinity. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Denlinger: Of Schoolyard Bullies, Zorro, and Charles Atlas] Reference
I'm sure the Schwinn's owner also longs to move from one dandyish mode of urban transport to another. From Wordnik.com. [The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Weirdness] Reference
"Merely science fiction facing backwards": that dandyish contemptuousness, that thoughtless sweep. From Wordnik.com. [November 2005] Reference
White builds this uncertainty into the drama, and Steve Nixon isn't bad as the smug, dandyish writer. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund White's play 'Terre Haute' at Capital Fringe: A literary destination] Reference
He affected a dandyish look then, and wore three-piece suits amid a sea of jeans and tie-dyed T shirts. From Wordnik.com. [Sudden Death] Reference
He isn't pretending to be young, doesn't wear dandyish clothes and makes light of the few foul-ups he makes. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Mohr: Save Rod Stewart!] Reference
Gates describes this as “dandyish, even jokey,” but Broyard is neither striking a pose nor cracking wise. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
I admit, I tend to prefer his photos where he seems to be dressing more like men of past times: sort of dapper dandyish in a way. From Wordnik.com. [Rejecting The Gender Binary In Fashion » Sociological Images] Reference
An outlandish figure because of his dandyish dress and wise-guy persona, Maple faced plenty of resistance when he arrived in New Orleans last October. From Wordnik.com. ['Go Get The Scumbags'] Reference
Despite the occasion, they were imbued with an almost dandyish, even jokey sense of incongruity: My urologist, who is quite famous, wanted to cut off my testicles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
I was reminded Lou von Salomé and her dandyish manner. From Wordnik.com. [On the Runway] Reference
I propose to get a light, supple, dandyish cane, and to give Mrs. Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
A sculpted, dandyish face, one that looked completely "Un-Japanese" in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
He was now in full afternoon costume, and, if not dandyish, was undeniably well dressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
In the show's second half, for which Mr. Wainwright changed into dandyish street clothes. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The thick-set Taylor has none of the dandyish elegance of Jagger or the outlaw chic of Keith Richards. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
The dandyish, dishevelled Holmes, played by Robert Downey Jr, is very different to previous portrayals. From Wordnik.com. [Londonist] Reference
There is an impressive portrait of the minister in his silk scarf and sporting a rather dandyish hairstyle. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
Bulletin bards of the late nineteenth century, to Marcus Clarke's dandyish bohemian clubs in the 1870s and 60s. From Wordnik.com. [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference
The group also developed a signature look that embodied the dandyish flamboyance of the British psychedelic era. From Wordnik.com. [we move to canada] Reference
"I think it's so mean-spirited," says Cumming, taking off his dapper jacket like a dandyish boxer preparing to fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
On the other hand, politicians who dress too dandyish risk seeing their clothes speak louder than their words, Dumont says. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Here were trousers with a dandyish, masculine-feminine swagger, with neat, slightly waisted jackets and not-ridiculous shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And Alban Groult-Cotelle was nothing but a stuck-up fool, one of those dandyish good for-nothings to be found in any country district. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Rival]
'pale poet' vibe - the well-molded face, dandyish vest, sculpted tousle. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
As for other similarities, I think they’re mostly limited to a somewhat overlapping dandyish aesthetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Pin] Reference
Those clothes: skinny trousers and jeans, sharp blazers with narrow revers, pointy boots, and lots of dandyish little details. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Ultimately, though, you’re making a subjective style critique in favour of one that matches your own dandyish self-conception. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times] Reference
His dandyish exterior was a front. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming in French] Reference
The effect was dandyish in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 22] Reference
And not altogether a dandyish doll. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference
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