What's the difference between dandyish and dandyism?
Dandyish
Definition:
(a.) Like a dandy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insubordinate, dandyish Lieutenant TE Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is in the palatial Cairo offices of the Arab Bureau's Mr Dryden (Claude Rains) to discuss secondment with the Bedouin.
(2) Full of visual invention, it has Cavalcanti's greatest villain: "Narcy", or Narcissus, a preening, dandyish cockney sadist whose name, not so coincidentally, is a near-homophone for Churchill's pronunciation of "Nazi".
(3) Also present were Malcolm Muggeridge and AJ Ayer, both working for British intelligence, and Harold Acton, the dandyish aesthete whom Orwell knew from Eton.
(4) Two centuries ago, Beau Brummell's 'dandy' look was immediately pounced upon with satire by contemporaries — and yet it is Brummell's vanity which British men have to thank for the move from knee breeches to full length trousers, a hemline development which even the least dandyish would recognise, with the benefit of hindsight, as progress.
Dandyism
Definition:
(n.) The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is certainly not some esoteric 13th-century Hadith that makes Isis so eager to adopt the modern west’s technologies of war, revolution and propaganda – especially, as the homicidal dandyism of Jihadi John reveals, its mediatised shock-and-awe violence.