dandy

Before long, Connecticut was testing his dandy idea on a few miles of the Merritt Parkway between Greenwich and Stamford.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

Yet he acquired a reputation as a dandy, a clever humorist and an intellectual showman, distinctly apolitical and seemingly a man of no convictions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025

The dandy, it turns out, is a local teenage fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who just happened to be at a real crime scene.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025

I could still climb just dandy with my other arm.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Some gentlemen are dandies, but most dandies are not gentlemen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

He donned a royal blue Valentino cloak that paid homage to Andre Leon Talley, former editor-at-large on Vogue whom Anna Wintour called "a dandy among dandies."

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

The collection was inspired by aviation, and there were tailoring traces from the golden era of flight when dandies like Charles Lindbergh made history with solo crossings of the Atlantic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

Warblers are the diminutive dandies of the birding world.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022

But the Fashion Minister barrels in, followed by his team of dandies and a wardrobe closet with massive carriagelike wheels.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Then maybe, just maybe, you could put in for the difference between the price of the humdrum machine and the price of the dandier dander remover.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

It has drawn lumbersexuals of the dandier sort — furniture designers, creative directors, advertising executives and weekend carpenters — who don their finest houndstooth and tweeds for the occasion.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015

There's not a dandier, better pal anywhere, than what Chum's been to me.

From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

“There’s surely not a dandier picture in the world than a girl sitting in the shade sewing—white things,” he said at last, by way of greeting.

From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

“The amazing Master Tool Corporation, a subsidiary of Fly-By-Night Industries, has entrusted who? Me! To show you! The handiest and the dandiest kitchen tool you’ve ever seen.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

“As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy — a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts,” he writes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

Of course, he looks great: a steel-grey silver fox, these days, but still flash in light parka and kick flares, quite the dandiest man in Blacks, the Soho club where we meet.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2010

Christopher Isherwood, that permanently promising young man, seemed during the '30s to be the two dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan.

From Time Magazine Archive

She fishes, digs for clams, catches lobsters in traps, and does all the things the fishermen around here do and more, too, because she is the jim dandiest cook in the county.”

From The Motor Maids' School Days by Katherine Stokes