A dapper young man. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Yes. sylpheed-claws in dapper is broken (IMAPS doesn't work). From Wordnik.com. [Finally decent email application] Reference
Expect new version in dapper till end of the week, when I'll upload it. From Wordnik.com. [Finally decent email application] Reference
He was the kind of delicate middle-aged man for whom the word dapper had been coined. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
But version in dapper is broken and outdated. From Wordnik.com. [Finally decent email application] Reference
Mr. Suleiman is known as a dapper dresser, preferring suits over military uniforms. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It was kept by a Mr Bowers, whom Byron has described as a dapper, spruce person, with whom he made no progress. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Lord Byron]
It is possible that in his youth the word 'dapper' may have applied to him; a forgotten fact which perhaps accounted for his nickname. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Always dressed sharply in a suit and tie, he comes off as a kind of dapper Lane Pryce figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Mr Madden was reportedly always impeccably dressed and "dapper" but avoided conversing with neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference
Overdressed lawyers, who think that they're dapper. From Wordnik.com. [A Few of My Least Favorite Things] Reference
A dapper footman opened the door and took his card. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
"That leak ain't nothin, '" said a dapper Englishmin. From Wordnik.com. [Week 880: Our most famous neologism contest, and the winning oil spill song parodies] Reference
A fella looking dapper, but he's sittin with a slapper. From Wordnik.com. [British Singer Lily Allen: Upbeat Music, Cutting Lyrics] Reference
We love his velvety vibrato, his dapper phrasings, his tuxedoed finesse. From Wordnik.com. [Dino: That's Amore] Reference
At last a clerk drew near -- a smallish, dapper young fellow of about twenty. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Imam Faisal was dapper and articulate and spoke in carefully calibrated soundbites. From Wordnik.com. [Parvez Sharma: America's Imam and His Problematic Mosque: A Muslim Viewpoint] Reference
Urbane, dapper hamid karzai has always come off well in the international spotlight. From Wordnik.com. [A Violent Wake-Up Call] Reference
Scoffs the dapper Powell, with mock horror: "This guy wears hiking boots with a suit!". From Wordnik.com. [Chemistry In The War Cabinet] Reference
Next came the dapper John Legend, who sang a particularly rousing cover of "Let it Be.". From Wordnik.com. [In East Hampton, a Show for Apollo Theater] Reference
He was 24, a dapper young draftsman from East Texas with telltale spots on his knee and buttock. From Wordnik.com. [The Only World They Know] Reference
Before the car I was in had started, a dapper little fellow -- he would be called a dude at this day. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
At the president's house, Holbrooke, who is 6 feet 2, gave the dapper, coiffed Zardari a big bearhug. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man in Afghanistan] Reference
"Mighty sharp today," he told NBC's dapper David Gregory before the reporter could even open his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: Two Days, Two Europes] Reference
He's 78 and he came to our interview looking dapper in a white cap with a bill, a hat befitting a yachtsman. From Wordnik.com. [Fats Domino, 'Alive and Kickin' After Katrina] Reference
In less than twenty minutes the sun burnt, dirty Gus Lippe had been transformed into the dapper Bob Russell. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
They might have seen him, that famous, dapper seventy-four-year-old who took his walks on the Marina streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Loneliest Hero] Reference
"One right-winger wrote me a letter warning: 'You'll be punished by heaven'," says the dapper 74-year-old scholar. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
The dapper neosoulman sounds as good as he looks, yet clunky lyrics and shallow songs make even Maxwell feel bland. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Moment] Reference
One day, very cleverly gotten upon as a dapper lawyer, he dropped in at the office of Messrs. Lord & Myers, bankers. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
While Sch?? ssel is a dapper, moderate-to-conservative figure, Haider represents the darker side of Austrian history. From Wordnik.com. [Austria's Power Player] Reference
In spite of his boyish yet dapper appearance, he has an enviable record of conviction: one quarter of his life in jail. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Musketeers] Reference
"Mrs. Racket will you do us the favour," &c. says a dapper young gentleman offering his hand to lead a lady to the piano. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
But beneath that dapper exterior was a man in turmoil, a politician who had mere hours to choose between two grim options. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Rangel, falling with grace] Reference
The air stirred the leaves of the old Walnuts outside: the black-coated, dapper figure had not yet passed from under them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Judge Claudy Gassant, a dapper small man with a quick smile, told NEWSWEEK he would finish his investigation no matter what. From Wordnik.com. [Caribbean: Haitian Murder Mystery] Reference
Above it hangs an image of a dapper teenager, his skin smooth and pale, with brown hair swept back over his sepia-toned forehead. From Wordnik.com. [An Overlooked Baseball Pioneer] Reference
He's a dapper, witty fellow with excellent taste in ties, and since he moved here from London seven years ago an Upper West Sider. From Wordnik.com. [Posing a Rebirth of Cool] Reference
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