sprucer
- comparative of spruce.
Example Sentences
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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 Ford, Sewell
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 Muir, Ward
But then the Geshuritish Troop, well-Oath’d, And for the sprucer Face, well-fed, and Cloath’d.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
