natty
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The best advice for junior-level financiers, according to Tim Gunn, the natty fashion author and academic: Read the room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
He buys a suit in “a becoming shade of green” and, though the year is 1930, a pair of spats, the natty, gaitered footwear of a 19th-century gentleman.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
It’s not just the inimitable aerial that’s propelled them to the natty, but physicality and key defensive plays.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
“Our mission all year was natty or bust, so we know we got to finish the job.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
On one such night, Ammu, aged nine, hiding with her mother in the hedge, watched Pappachi’s natty silhouette in the lit windows as he flitted from room to room.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Irons, however brilliant, is a generation older than Hardy was in 1914, and Patel is taller and nattier than the more corpulent Ramanujan, who was ill at ease in Western dress.
From Nature ● Mar. 29, 2016
Two weeks ago, the Great Googa Mooga Festival descended upon Prospect Park in Brooklyn, which abuts on its left some of the borough’s nattier neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2012
The other rat is three feet shorter but nattier, wearing a suit and tie and clutching two big bags of money.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
TV went to Chicago armed with better makeup artists, nattier dress and more fancy electronic gadgets than ever before.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'd like things nattier," Andy used to say; "but it's Jane's way."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various
All the sweeps wore their smartest, nattiest, mostly black best, even though the September sun delivered summer temperatures.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2019
I expect my elected officials to look at least as pulled-together as the nattiest customer at any given Buffalo Wild Wings.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2019
He became one of the House’s nattiest dressers, with a preference for pinstripe suits and polished shoes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2018
In London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the werry nattiest thing I have seen for many a day," murmured Grannie, "and only tuppence three farthings.
From Good Luck by L. T. Meade
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