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Modishly

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.

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modishly

adv. In a modish manner.

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modishly

adv. in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, sprucely]

Usage examples of "modishly".

Frisella was one of those barbers who cut hair to suit his mood of the day, one time modishly, another time puckishly, another time with the extreme conservativeness of a peasant farmer.

Ivy Wrangton must have been seventeen, Wexford calculated, her face plain, puffy, young, her figure modishly pouter pigeon-like, her hair in that most unflattering of fashions, the cottage loaf.