(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.
Raffish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
(2) His father, a teacher, introduced him to serious drama, but young Bill also experienced raffish visual entertainment from the visiting Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
(3) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
(4) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(5) He was always impeccably turned out - always a suit and tie, when the rest of us slobs slumped around the screening rooms in jeans - though he favoured a raffish cravat, brilliant white slacks and a huge pair of aviator-style sunglasses when on the Croisette at Cannes.
(6) The Tories have raffishly gathered at the country's best loved steeplechase race course this weekend, on the northern edge of town.
(7) She is the daughter of the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, and the raffish society snapper Lord Snowdon .
(8) The epitome of raffish cool in the Kate Moss days, he’s now actively positioning himself as a grumpy micromanaged has-been.
(9) Raffish, good-natured, and quintessentially English in his propensity to say sorry, Perry is now at agonies to insist his comments were ill-informed.
(10) A woman placed in the role of an action hero or a criminal adventurer is empowered, heroic, raffish.
(11) With its clubby green armchairs and smoothly attentive waiters, it's old school in the best possible way; what used to be called "raffish".
(12) Similarly, when Billy starts shooting large numbers of people through their heads in a breezy and cheerful fashion, you're supposed to take this as part of his raffish charm.
(13) Bill Astor, who had introduced the two lovers at the poolside party at the family seat, had a raffish reputation of his own - and he was David's elder brother.
(14) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.
(15) A raffish or mysterious aura, it seems to me, is just as helpful when it comes to making a class pay attention as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Hundred Years' War.