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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
modish
adjective
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▪ It has emerged from the realms of sub-culture into the mainstream, and may yet, via Viz, be modish.
▪ Moral virtues were a cunningly indirect alibi for modish economic vices.
▪ She sits there, nearly crushing the spindly, modish bench some twee designer has deemed appropriate for business chitchat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modish

Modish \Mod"ish\, a. According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
--Dryden. ``Modish forms of address.''
--Barrow. [1913 Webster] -- Mod"ish*ly, adv. -- Mod"ish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
modish

1650s, from mode (n.2) + -ish. "Very common in 17-18 c.; now somewhat arch[aic]." [OED].

Wiktionary
modish

a. conforming with fashion or style.

WordNet
modish

adj. in the current fashion or style [syn: a la mode(p), in style(p), in vogue(p)]

Usage examples of "modish".

If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation: and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the county.

With Europe constantly in their minds, they were bewildered to find the worshippers not chiefly old and young women, but men also of all ages and of every degree, from the neat peasant in his Sabbath-day best to the modish young Quebecker, who spread his handkerchief on the floor to save his pantaloons during supplication.

She would have to make an appointment with Brady as soon as she could afford a new dress and a modish haircut, and when she gained back some of the weight she had lost.

After divers modish congees, he begged to know to what he should attribute the honour of their message.

But I'm convinced, nevertheless, that the modish Tony knows who killed his bona roba and looted her apartment.

The ladies were equally resplendent in modish crinolette gowns of silk and taffeta and brocade.

In spite of a modish (and very expensive) morning-dress of twilled French silk, and the smart crop achieved for her golden curls by the most fashionable coiffeur in London, she looked absurdly youthful, like a schoolgirl caught out in mischief.

Honeycutt was dressed in his usual modish fashion: silky-feather jacket, silk scarf wound round his neck and waterfalling down his back, white cord pants.