dapper

dapper

1

adjmarked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

“a dapper young man”

Synonyms:

dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy,spruce

fashionable, stylish

being or in accordance with current social fashions

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WORD FAMILY

dapper

the "dapper" family

USAGE EXAMPLES

• The 34-year-old embraced the opportunity to inhabit Reynolds'dapper outfits and personally sought out the right pair of glasses to adorn his famously bespectacled visage.
  BBC Dec 10, 2013
• The dapper Prokhorov is 6 feet 8 inches and knows his way around a basketball court.
  New York Times Dec 5, 2013
• Managed by the tall, affable and dapper Simon-Pierre Hamelin, this magnet for writers and readers stages lectures, readings, signings and exhibitions of works on paper.
  New York Times Dec 2, 2013
• The open question is whether the company can use him to bring down Donziger, who would be the Dapper Don in this scenario.
  BusinessWeek Oct 28, 2013

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