dudish
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Photograph: Jeff Vespa/WireImage Is there a cooler actor than Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish thesp extraordinaire and the man so dudish Paul Bettany named his son after him?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2012
When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial broadside, What's the Matter with Kansas?
From Time Magazine Archive
Englishmen remembered him from his Cambridge days when his tall, dandified figure, complete with tightly furled umbrella and dudish Edwardian jacket, was a familiar sight, in Mayfairs poshest bars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nowadays we are apt to think of debonair as meaning gay, careless, fashionable, and "dudish"; but Louis, the son of Charlemagne, was anything but this.
From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various
I'm afraid that if I brushed him every day he'd get dudish an' unreliable, like me....
From Bruce of the Circle A by Harold Titus
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