dapper
adjective
neat; trim; smart.
dapperness
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a word derived from
dapper.
Example Sentences
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Another nameless man struts out the door, his dishevelment suddenly transformed into dapperness by Doyle's herringbone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or are clearness and dapperness the absolutely final shape of creation?
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
She disapproved174 of his toddling walk, his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats and general appearance of over-emphasized dapperness.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart
To them Bruce’s genius was incontestably proved by the faultless evenness with which he parted his hair behind, the dapperness of his boots, and the merit of his spotless shirts.
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
He surveyed the two; Jarvis was tattered and scratched, but apparently in better condition than Leroy, whose dapperness was completely lost.
From Valley of Dreams by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
