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
Looks sprucer and snappier than I'd ever seen him before, too.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Sewell Ford
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
The storekeeper, much sprucer in dress than heretofore, smiled and nodded to her over the bridge of his violin.
From How Janice Day Won by Helen Beecher Long
Or he would be denounced as a "sprucer" if he managed to arrive late for his meal and yet, by a trick, to secure a front place in the waiting queue at the canteen.
From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Ward Muir
