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
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
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
A dudish society reporter from Philadelphia dropped into town the other morning.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
Some affect a smaller caliber, but it is looked upon as slightly dudish.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann
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