dapper

• She made no attempt to follow Agatha, but led the way down-stairs into the drawing-room Mr. Trenchard, come and let me introduce you to Mrs. Locke Harper As Miss Valery said this, an elderly gentleman, dapper, dandy, and small, escaped from under the hands of Duke Dugdale--those big earnest hands that were laid upon him in all the apostleship of sincere argument--and came, nothing loth, as his eager bow showed, to do the polite to the young bride who had been lately brought to the county. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
• He turned round, and saw that a short and dapper-looking man had come up close beside him. —  The Dictator
• He was a smart, dapper, well made man, with a handsome, but not an intellectual countenance; cleanly and particular in his person; and, assisted by the puffs of toady, had a very good opinion of himself; proud of his aristocratic birth, and still more vain of his personal appearance. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
• Jack also liked Mesty, and was fond of talking with him, and every evening, since the combat with Vigors, they had generally met in the forecastle to discuss the principles of equality and the rights of man The boatswain, whose name was Biggs, was a slight, dapper, active little man, who, as captain of the foretop, had shown an uncommon degree of courage in a hurricane, so much so, as to recommend him to the admiral for promotion. —  Mr. Midshipman Easy
• Was it not Nevins who won all the money those two young tenientes possessed--two boys from the far East just joining their regiment and haplessly falling into the hands of this dashing, dapper, wholesouled, hospitable comrade who made his temporary quarters their home until they could find opportunity to go forward to the distant posts where their respective companies were stationed? —  A Wounded Name

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