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dashing

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dash·ing  (dshng)
adj.
1. Audacious and gallant; spirited.
2. Marked by showy elegance; splendid: a dashing coat. See Synonyms at fashionable.
dashing·ly adv.
dashing
Adjective
stylish and attractive: a splendidly dashing character
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.dashing - lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
gallant
spirited - displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
2.dashing - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, spruce, snappy
fashionable, stylish - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
dashing
adjective (Old-fashioned) stylish, smart, elegant, dazzling, flamboyant, sporty, swish (informal), chiefly Brit. urbane, jaunty, dapper, showy
Translations
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adj → gallardo
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adj → fringant(e)
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adj → flott
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adj → ardito/a


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" "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.
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"I am known," said the Object, dashing itself again at the wall, "as the Consciousness of Duty Well Performed.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
But her mother heard, and Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation.
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