What is "well-dressed"

Usage examples of "well-dressed".

He heard the rumors swirling through the crowd, mostly well-dressed businesspeople, their faces creased with anguish and pain.

Well-dressed middle-agers, flagging cabs, off to expensive dinners and the theater.

Charles was getting more and more nervous under the curt questioning of this well-dressed clubman with the piercing eyes.

They were well-dressed, if multicolored leather trousers and billowing shirts and long swords is your idea, of well-dressed Capo Doccia waved me over.

She came in, and I saw before me a well-dressed woman, followed by a girl from twenty to twenty-four years old, who pleased me at the first glance.

Russ slipped the skycap a five-dollar bill and led Sharon over toward the well-dressed stranger.

While I did see a considerable number of ladies who were well-dressed according to our standards, the average Berlin female, with her ulsterette or raincoat, her plain felt hat, her cotton stockings, and her low-heeled shoes, rarely warrants a second look.

Clad in fancy wool overcoats and shiny city shoes, the three men were too well-dressed, too Yankeefied to be from anywhere near Jackson County.

It had seemed unused, not a good choice for my limited resources, but it was just the place Adeline would take guests, especially well-dressed ones.

The clowns were looking at each other in great astonishment, not knowing what to make out of a well-dressed young man, looking very peaceful, and throwing his money to them with such generosity.

But someone else was-a well-dressed, slender, grayhaired man who wore spectacles.

There was no footman on it, and consequently the waiter came out and opened the door, and I saw four well-dressed women leave the carriage.

In each case, a powerfully built plainclothed driver stepped out of the car, surveyed the pedestrians on the busy street without seeming to do so, and opened a passenger door from which the only occupant, a well-dressed elderly man, emerged.

As the speech continued, the eyes of the ranchers around the table were fixed with growing attention upon this well-dressed, city-bred young man, who spoke so fluently and who told them of their own intentions.

But the sailors had no eye for two adolescent summerlingstwo variant bratswhen there were plump winter Lamais about, all attractively identical, well-dressed and well-mannered.