Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dashing manner; with dash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb colloq. Conspicuously; showily.
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- adverb In a
dashing manner.
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- adverb in a highly fashionable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was a dashingly handsome young man, not much older than Washington, slender of build with dark eyes and dark hair, who looked born to wear a uniform.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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You'd have to understand, first, that her idea of the Devil was that of a dashingly handsome, swarthy man with a naughty boy grin and an ever-present cocktail in hand, probably also smoke curling from a cigar but smelling of cloves.
Her Idea of the Devil Epiphany Ferrell 2011
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Like Bond, Assayas's Carlos comes across as both dashingly glamorous and a bit of a knob.
Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon Steve Rose 2010
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He was a dashingly handsome young man, not much older than Washington, slender of build with dark eyes and dark hair, who looked born to wear a uniform.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He was a dashingly handsome young man, not much older than Washington, slender of build with dark eyes and dark hair, who looked born to wear a uniform.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Her alliance with Fisk allows Josie Mansfield to live a glamorous life, but when she falls for the dashingly handsome Edward Stokes, the resulting blackmail and lawsuits culminate in Stokes's murder of Fisk in broad daylight in the Grand Central Hotel in New York City.
Mary Pauline Lowry: An Interview With H.W. Brands on The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield Mary Pauline Lowry 2011
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Her alliance with Fisk allows Josie Mansfield to live a glamorous life, but when she falls for the dashingly handsome Edward Stokes, the resulting blackmail and lawsuits culminate in Stokes's murder of Fisk in broad daylight in the Grand Central Hotel in New York City.
Mary Pauline Lowry: An Interview With H.W. Brands on The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield Mary Pauline Lowry 2011
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He was a dashingly handsome young man, not much older than Washington, slender of build with dark eyes and dark hair, who looked born to wear a uniform.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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So hurrah for Colin Firth, a triumph for dashingly glamorous yet intellectually solid sense over diamanté-encrusted vulgarity!
The Radio 4 snobs strike again Polly Vernon 2010
vanishedone commented on the word dashingly
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November 10, 2008