dandiacal

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The rest of him by no means dandiacal, even the vanity of glasses long since abandoned.

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  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dandy or dandies; dandified. [Humorous.] To my own surmise, it appears as if this Dandiacal Sect were but a new modification, adapted to the new time, of that primeval superstition, self-worship. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 191.

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  • The rest of him by no means dandiacal, even the vanity of glasses long since abandoned. —  Love and Mr. Lewisham
  • He formed many new compound words after the German fashion, such as "mischief-joy"; and when he pleased, he coined new words, like "dandiacal" and "croakery His frequent exclamations and inversions make his style seem choppy, like a wave-tossed sea; but his sentences are so full of vigor that they almost call aloud from the printed page. —  Halleck's New English Literature
  • He is dressed in excellent taste, with just the little bit more which shows that he is not without a sense of humour: the dandiacal are often saved by carrying a smile at the whole thing in their spats, let us say. —  The Admirable Crichton
  • The Mr Dolomore in question was a young man of rather offensive type--athletic, dandiacal, and half-educated. —  New Grub Street
  • 'My stepson' -- she loved to introduce him, so tall, manly, distinguished, and dandiacal. —  Tales of the Five Towns
 

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