modishlyadv.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 153 His sleeve is either carelesly or modishly thrown over his arm.

1675 J. Dancer in tr. P. Quinault Agrippa Ded. sig. A2^v This Play in it self is not at all calculated to the humour of the present times..; nor is it (to speak Modishly) showish enough.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4642/3 A Brick Building new and modishly built.

1776 S. Foote Bankrupt Prol. Unless indeed, I modishly apply, For leave to sell my works by lottery.

1821 J. Bunting in R. Treffry Mem. J. Benson (1840) 344 His ministry was scriptural; not metaphysically subtile, nor modishly sentimental.

1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 55 It was the figure that had appeared to the Postmaster; the slight..form of a young woman modishly attired.

1951 People 3 June 6/6 (advt.) Modishly styled skirt.

1972 Daily Tel. 9 June (Colour Suppl.) 9/1 Guccione is a New Yorker, 39, with a moody face, modishly shaggy.

1991 Artforum Feb. 100/1 One of the meanings of post-Modernism is that no art can ever again be modern in the sense of modishly new, definitive of our ‘nowness’.