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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dandyish
Adjective
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The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025 -
Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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 9 Sep. 2025.
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