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Synonyms for dressy

Grammar : Adj
Spell : dres-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɛs i

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Définition of dressy

Origin :
  • 1760s, from dress (v.) + -y (2).
  • "For as her natural face decays, her skill improves in making the artificial one. Well, nothing diverts me more than one of those fine, old, dressy things, who thinks to conceal her age by everywhere exposing her person; sticking herself up in the front of a side-box; trailing through a minuet at Almack's; and then, in the public gardens looking, for all the world, like one of the painted ruins of the place." [Goldsmith, "The Good Natured Man," 1768].
  • adj formal, fashionable
Example sentences :
  • "He always was a dressy old scoundrel," remarked the Tuttle person.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • She was a dressy young person, whose father kept a "sample-room."
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • The latter's genial nature and dressy appearance pleased him.
  • Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser
  • The dressy manager was shaken by the hand three times in as many minutes.
  • Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser
  • For day receptions the dress may be more elaborate and the bonnet more "dressy."
  • Extract from : « Social Life » by Maud C. Cooke
  • His shirts, collars, and neckties were clean and always “dressy.”
  • Extract from : « What's-His-Name » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • Since shes been going with Gladys, she feels as if she had to be dressy.
  • Extract from : « Girls of Highland Hall » by Carolyn Watson Rankin
  • So we may picture them as clad in that dressy yet serviceable garb.
  • Extract from : « The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace » by Frederick Morse Cutler
  • I kinder set a car off, and make 'em look respectable and dressy.
  • Extract from : « Sweet Cicely » by Josiah Allen's Wife: Marietta Holley
  • The elder of the two, the "dean," was dressy and art-y; his name was Horace Howe.
  • Extract from : « The "Genius" » by Theodore Dreiser

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