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单词 dandified
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Definition of dandified in English:

dandified

adjectiveˈdandɪfʌɪdˈdændəˌfaɪd
  • 1(of a man) showing excessive concern about his clothes or appearance.

    a dandified liberal senator
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The men's dandified dress seems extremely unusual to us, with their long fancy coats with huge, decorated cuffs.
    • To complete the dandified gentleman look: a camel suit, driving gloves and pony-skin loafers.
    • Brooks was clearly amused by her friend's dandified appearance, bone-thin in foppish drag, complete with masculine-cut jacket, high collar, monocle, bobbed hair and imperiously arched eyebrows.
    • Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots.
    • The latter dazzled him not only with his unconventional paintings (Delacroix posed for one of the dying figures in The Raft of the Medusa), but also with his dandified dress and dashing lifestyle.
    Synonyms
    dandyish, dapper, dressy, spruce
    1. 1.1 Self-consciously sophisticated or elaborate.
      he writes a dandified prose
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They regarded cigarettes as effete, dandified, even faintly foreign.
      • It was once said of Oscar Wilde that the dandified playwright's dinner party conversation was so dazzling, so perfectly phrased, it seemed Wilde had already written out everything he planned to say the night prior to the festivities.
      • One imagines Dumas's young men about town affecting the same dandified, Anglophile pose.
      • Whether performing on stage or off, Astaire, like Marshall / Monescu and other dandified leading men, created an aesthetic of performance and fastidious elegance.
      • Mere mention of the French capital conjures images of turtle-necked poets brooding in starlit cafes, dandified flâneurs strolling the narrow boulevards and perfectly glamorous femmes sipping absinthe under gas lanterns.
      • His cultured grammar and dandified manner could be immensely annoying.
 
 

Definition of dandified in US English:

dandified

adjectiveˈdandəˌfīdˈdændəˌfaɪd
  • 1(of a man) showing excessive concern about his clothes or appearance.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Brooks was clearly amused by her friend's dandified appearance, bone-thin in foppish drag, complete with masculine-cut jacket, high collar, monocle, bobbed hair and imperiously arched eyebrows.
    • The men's dandified dress seems extremely unusual to us, with their long fancy coats with huge, decorated cuffs.
    • The latter dazzled him not only with his unconventional paintings (Delacroix posed for one of the dying figures in The Raft of the Medusa), but also with his dandified dress and dashing lifestyle.
    • Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots.
    • To complete the dandified gentleman look: a camel suit, driving gloves and pony-skin loafers.
    Synonyms
    dandyish, dapper, dressy, spruce
    1. 1.1 Self-consciously sophisticated or elaborate.
      he writes a dandified prose
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was once said of Oscar Wilde that the dandified playwright's dinner party conversation was so dazzling, so perfectly phrased, it seemed Wilde had already written out everything he planned to say the night prior to the festivities.
      • His cultured grammar and dandified manner could be immensely annoying.
      • Whether performing on stage or off, Astaire, like Marshall / Monescu and other dandified leading men, created an aesthetic of performance and fastidious elegance.
      • Mere mention of the French capital conjures images of turtle-necked poets brooding in starlit cafes, dandified flâneurs strolling the narrow boulevards and perfectly glamorous femmes sipping absinthe under gas lanterns.
      • One imagines Dumas's young men about town affecting the same dandified, Anglophile pose.
      • They regarded cigarettes as effete, dandified, even faintly foreign.
 
 
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