dandify
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Was she going to the races or a match, or a kettle-drum, that she must dandify herself with particular shades of color?
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
The star-studded cast of the witty mystery includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn and Daniel Craig in the most delightful wardrobe like a dandified James Bond.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022
But I like the ad, which has Christopher Walken saying the product name three times, forcefully, while a dandified Justin Timberlake looks on, not saying a word.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2017
Roberto Montenegro’s “Portrait of Xavier Villaurrutia” portrays an elegant, dandified figure who is the polar opposite of the macho, chest-thumping strivers who populate the work of the muralists.
From Economist ● Oct. 27, 2016
He appears as a dandified debunker of the paranormal—itself a neat joke, since Murray has spent the intervening decades debunking the normal.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2016
At a quarter to ten, neat, spruce, and dandified as ever, he made his way to the restaurant car, where a chorus of woe was going on.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
The major smiled as he saw the boy dandifying himself in the glass: the old gentleman was not displeased with the appearance of the comely lad.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
