modish
Collocations
4ADJ.
still, western
VERB + MODISH
fighting, pushing, sat
MODISH + NOUN
bucks, negroes, religion
ADV.
always
Definitions
adj
Conforming with fashion or style.
As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
In the current mode.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — in the current fashion or style
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.
WiktionaryThe huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
WiktionaryMy sister-in-law lived through the poverty of her modish Western religion.
Tatoeba · #10632874My neighbours are always pushing their modish Western religion.
Tatoeba · #10634971They are still fighting their modish Western religion.
Tatoeba · #10652912