(a.) Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is what happened this week, when another web campaign persuaded ITV2 that its relationship with a fellow by the name of Dapper Laughs was no longer worth it.
(2) The performer, real name Daniel O’Reilly, posted a Christmas message on YouTube proclaiming that “Dapper’s Back”.
(3) If she cries, she’s just playing hard to get.”) A petition for the removal of his show Dapper Laughs: On the Pull on ITV2 having gathered 63,000 names, the series was cancelled last Monday.
(4) Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back.
(5) Broadcasters are scouring the world of internet video bloggers – vloggers – in the hope of finding the next big thing, and Dapper (real name Daniel O’Reilly) was touted as one of the first to be given his own TV series .
(6) Although the big tour dates have been canned, according to a spokesman from the agency Coalition which says it acts as “live booking agent for Dapper Laughs”, the comedian is “still going ahead with club shows”.
(7) Luciano Liggio, boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra until the mid-70s, was photographed sticking out his lower jaw like Don Vito, while Gotti, known as the Dapper Don, assumed the style wholesale.
(8) MK For the most part he wears civilian clothes, and I wanted him to be pretty dapper.
(9) I felt blessed ITV2 had even given me a first series,” O’Reilly told Newsnight last week , saying Dapper Laughs was “gone”.
(10) A dapper gentleman, apparently in his 50s, dressed in a dark suit, a tie and a homburg hat, he didn't stand out among the traditionally dressed men of the Garden, many of whom are orthodox Jews.
(11) He was insouciant, dapper, elegant, somehow intensely English – though O'Toole himself was an Irishman and proud of it – and also outrageously sexy.
(13) Formerly chief foreign policy adviser to prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the dapper professor dubbed the "Turkish Kissinger" has energetically pursued the ruling AKP party's trademark policy of "zero problems with neighbours", a policy he first articulated in a 2001 book, Strategic Depth.
(14) A lot of them are young guys, much younger than Dapper Laughs, and they say crazy stupid stuff that people seem to love so much they keep on saying it.
(15) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
(16) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.
(17) The controversial comedian known as Dapper Laughs has used his first public appearance since the axing of a second series of his ITV2 show to claim that he was laying the “character” to rest, while describing himself as “a victim of my own mistakes” and blaming the media for much of the recent storm surrounding him.
(18) Dapper Laughs’s brand of ‘comedy’ - which is deeply offensive about homeless people, not to mention many others - is something we felt it was important to take a stand against.
(19) Dapper in bow tie and blazer, Nigel Farage’s new European ally likes to welcome a woman to his grey-walled, grey-carpeted Brussels office by stooping to kiss her hand.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Adele's Skyfall Updated at 2.21am GMT 12.46am GMT Neil Patrick Harris is speaking to the "dapper" Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet.
Debonair
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Slipstream , her raw and honest memoir, she recounts how her debonair father, David, would kiss her on the lips and grope her, while her mother, Kit, a former ballerina, "thought that everything to do with sex was absolutely disgusting".
(2) Keen to make the most of the global interest the film has aroused, the city council on Friday unveiled a series of itineraries for tourists and locals keen to follow in the debonair steps of Jep Gambardella, The Great Beauty's protagonist.
(3) Here's the problem, Britain: these men all possess debonair charm, refined good looks, and the ability to deliver intelligent, nuanced performances.
(4) A wiry 57, he arrives for lunch at Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue, New York City, looking debonair in a cashmere Canali sports jacket.
(5) It has become a deeply personal fight with her main opponent, the debonair MP and mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, from former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing Les Républicains party.
(6) Debonair and unflappable, former journalist Les Hinton served as Rupert Murdoch's consigliere for over a decade, smoothing the ruffled feathers of the rich and powerful whenever they were on the receiving end of stories published in News International's stable of titles.
(7) Craig was initially seen as a somewhat risky choice for Bond before his debut in Casino Royale in 2006, viewed by some as insufficiently debonair and arched-eyebrowed, even too blond.
(8) That bodes well for James Bond fans: work on a 23rd movie about Ian Fleming's debonair spy has been frozen since April while MGM, which owns the Bond franchise, sorts out its problems.
(9) A roguish and debonair art dealer, our hero has been described as an amoral Bertie Wooster with psychopathic tendencies.
(10) Depp, who only last week agreed to play Charlie Mortdecai in a film based on Kyril Bonfiglioli's books about the eccentric and debonair English art dealer, will once again portray the Mad Hatter in Hollywood's latest riff on the classic Lewis Carroll tale.
(11) There is a similar bifurcation in drama: while the film shows the delightfully homemade sound effects being created for a broadcast of Macbeth, the lighter end of theatre is represented by Eric Maschwitz, the debonair head of variety, seen urging a producer to make sure a music-hall act’s jokes are cleaned up (“It won’t get by for a moment, old boy”).
(12) It’s the only place I’ve kept going to for all the time I’ve lived here.” DEBONAIR is a DJ and hosts a bi-weekly show on NTS Radio .
(13) When Piano, who is a debonair 76, got the call late last summer in the back of a New York cab, his immediate reaction was an endearing, almost indignant, disbelief.
(14) Tall, immaculate and debonair into old age, Henry continued to work as a match-day host at White Hart Lane until 2006, when ill health forced him to give up his commitment to his beloved Spurs.
(15) Dastardly, debonair, dapper, devious, dignified and more than a little degenerate, the Lannister family has hit its stride.
(16) For my maiden voyage, I settled on a ride from London to Paris, offered on BlaBlaCar by a debonair Parisian named Jean K, who, according to reviews, was de confiance (trustworthy).
(17) Laura Wade-Gery could be a Barbara Taylor-Bradford heroine or a Jackie Collins boardroom badass: debonair, moneyed and connected as only a diplomat’s daughter could be, well-travelled, ambitious, successful – and about to become a mother at 50.