dandyish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dandyish
Adjective
  • Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • And then that version of Nosferatu fell apart, and Bill was cast in The Northman as this sort of foppish cousin of Alexander Skarsgård.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
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“Dandyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dandyish. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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