The word "dandy" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone or something that is particularly stylish, fashionable, or of high quality. For example: The new shoes she bought were a real dandy.
Consequently, the spotlight is hogged by Alexander, who shimmies across the floor, droops like a lovelorn dandy and gazes soulfully at the front row, where Salome and her friends are gazing back.
In person, however, Spall is quite the Dickensian dandy, resplendent in a pinstriped waistcoat, with mutton-chop sideburns and a Brillo-pad moustache.
One of the minor literary hits on the Parisian scene in recent months has been a biography of actor-journalist Alain Pacadis, the "punk dandy" who presided over Le Palace, the nightclub that was the Studio 54 of Paris in the 1980s.
Sadly, the days of outrageous dandy MPs such as the disgraced former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe have gone.
I don't know, my father was a dandy.
He was quite the dandy and stood with his expensive silk tie neatly tucked into his trousers, his perfectly pressed shirtsleeves rolled up and his hands free of gloves.
The pair become partners in the "corpses for cash" business, and Schultz volunteers to help rescue Django's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from a dandy-ish plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio).
POLITICO'S Ben Smith offers up a handy-dandy spreadsheet that lets you project delegate allocations from vote percentages in the remaining Democratic primaries, in case you've been itching to do a little handicapping for the office pool.
Just turn to Slate's handy-dandy Delegate Calculator, which allows you to easily project (approximately) how different results in the remaining states will affect the delegate count, and instantly see how much super-support each candidate must garner to win the nomination.(Photo credit: AP).
This is about introducing dandy-sounding management theories into the real-life world of work.
With all due respect to Jack Nicholson and the late Heath Ledger, cinema audiences still haven't met the comics' dandy-ish, lanky, cackling, psychopathic Joker.
