The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
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Mr. Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right."
From Time Magazine Archive
They rode the sprucer for it; they were in better spirits for it.
From The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 by Frank Norris
Oh, if my hands adhere to cash, My gloves at least are clean, And rarely have the gentry flash In sprucer clothes been seen.
From Paul Clifford — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Looks sprucer and snappier than I'd ever seen him before, too.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Sewell Ford
In its whole constitution it had not a straight floor, and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
