So is a menu that mingles the pleasingly traditional with the faddishly modern. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
We should move very carefully and not faddishly rush pell-mell into this sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
They've engaged occasionally, mostly faddishly, with experiments in new media - they created with much fanfare a new media arts board. From Wordnik.com. [Larvatus Prodeo] Reference
My parents were smokers, so I was never curious, I didn't see anything faddishly rebellious about it, either, and the habit always simply seemed revolting. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
While it's refreshing to see a diet book geared toward the psychology behind weight gain (instead of one that faddishly recommends a few specific foods to eat and to avoid), McGraw tends to complicate his advice with unnecessary jargon. From Wordnik.com. [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference
His photos reveal intense blue eyes peering from under faddishly long and tousled tufts of white-blond hair, an athletic build, and face carved with ruggedly handsome features better suited for traversing the ski slopes or riding the ocean surf, than wheeling down a hospital corridor. From Wordnik.com. [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference
In the past people have said that the secret of beauty is a sense of inner calm or clear skin or a complex million-to-one genetic fluke that happens to fit society’s faddishly ephemeral ideals at any given time, but all these people are idiots. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Hudson Gets All “Boo Hoo, It’s So Difficult Being Beautiful”] Reference
(wears her clothes with superb chic); a distinctive mode of dress or manner associated with a fashionable lifestyle, ideology, or pursuit (wearing the latest in urban chic); a faddishly popular quality or appeal; something, as a practice or interest, having such appeal (the transient tides of academic chic - Irving Kristol) shèek chichi-frilly or elaborate ornamentation; affectation, preciosity; chic shêshê chiffon-an ornamental addition, as a knot of ribbons, to a woman's dress; a sheer fabric especially of silk shíffon chiffonade-shredded or finely cut vegetables or herbs used especially as a garnish. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
(wears her clothes with superb chic); a distinctive mode of dress or manner associated with a fashionable lifestyle, ideology, or pursuit (wearing the latest in urban chic); a faddishly popular quality or appeal; something, as a practice or interest, having such appeal (the transient tides of academic chic - Irving Kristol) shèek chichi-frilly or elaborate ornamentation; affectation, preciosity; chic shêshê chiffon-an ornamental addition, as a knot of ribbons, to a woman's dress; a sheer fabric especially of silk shíffon chiffonade shiffonàd chignon shìnyon chinoiserie shinwazerìe choucroute shoô croût cinema cínemà, cínemə cinemathèque cínema phôtograph cinema verite cínema véritè claque cláck claqueur clackër. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"branding," i.e., the building of long-term reputations, which has remained the watchword among our corporations for more than a decade, will itself come to lose its luster; whether the triumph of Internet commerce, the widening readership of online news and blogs (with the concomitant narrowing of the news cycle, such that stories are often considered stale by the time a newspaper can print them), and the proliferation of cable television channels (many of which are devoted either explicitly to shopping or effectively to product placement) will swing tastes so faddishly that rather than courting consumers for life, the corporation will be content merely to hitch itself to a succession of their whims. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Magazine] Reference
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