dandyish

Adjective

dandyish (comparative more dandyish, superlative most dandyish)

1. Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
   • The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 83
   • His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish.2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 80

   Synonyms:

   dandiacal, foppish, beauish, buckish, coxcombical, dandified, dandy, dandyistic, dudish, foppy