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Meanings of modish in English

In the current fashion or style.

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Usage of modish in English
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Stalin also despised the tsars' modish subservience to foreign influences and advisers.
The Irish Times
2
A wall of modish glass brick separates this anteroom from the offices.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
3
Ray took from Miss Jevne the black silk gown, modest but modish.
Cheerful—By Request
4
First there's that modish whining noise, like Eeyore having swallowed a synthesiser.
The Irish Times
5
It was modern, mod and modish, and the critical hit of the year.
The Guardian
6
The French plays, too, were the feigned delight of all the modish world.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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This Lewis Seymour still lives and paints modish London in rose-colour.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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She was, in fact, a modish old lady as were her three friends.
Half Portions
9
By selecting a shorter coat equally modish, as shown by No.
What Dress Makes of Us
10
Do you think it needs a modish Columbus to discover that?
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
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A silver-haired woman in modish cat's-eye glasses was weeping and shaking her head.
The Fireman
12
The modish glasses hid his eyes, but David's whole handsome face exuded warmth.
Ghost Story
13
Once to the theater in a modish little sedan car which Leo drove himself.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
14
It's still wide-eyed and sharp, a great modish clatter with emotion, spirit and brio.
The Irish Times
15
But in that demented modish dining-room it was shriekingly incongruous.
Mr. Standfast
16
Calpak and Away are both companies that carry stylish-yet-minimalist-friendly pieces for the modish traveler.
Ebony
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