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/spˈɪfi/
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[ US /ˈspɪfi/ ]
[ US /ˈspɪfi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
a jaunty red hat
a dapper young man
How To Use spiffy In A Sentence
- ‘You look spiffy tonight, Matt,’ I teased him as he ignored Madison's request to wait and joined us in the bathroom.
- He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers.
- He also wears this spiffy reddish business-guy suit.
- I can only imagine how sharp and spiffy those uniforms would be … kinda a cross between Liberace at his best and Michael Jackson … all black leathery/chromy/zippery w/lots ‘n lots of sequins … and sun glasses … mirror aviators … Think Progress » Missouri Lawmaker’s Argument Against Repealing DADT: It Would Be A ‘Cultural Affront’ To Terrorists
- The original personnel manager is long gone, and it's now a rather spiffy young woman who congratulates him on becoming the treasurer and then later vice president.
- Being one of my company's IT representatives, it would have been my unsavory duty to tell Elizabeth that her spiffy new phone was not permitted on company premises.
- Shawn sauntered into the kitchen from the front door, carrying his guitar case again and looking spiffy in dark blue jeans and a white button down shirt.
- I always grow concerned when news networks break out their extra spiffy graphics during War Game time: showing Navy snipers shooting faceless bad guys, troop deployments in a "theoretic" ground invasion of Somalia, etc. Allison Kilkenny: Blowback Amnesia
- In 1987 Henry Cooper literally sailed into retirement on a spiffy, 50-foot ketch that he called the Palmyra.
- April 7th, 2010 at 4: 41 pm barfly says: spiffypants says: Think Progress » The New ‘Death Panels’: Gingrich Says GOP Should Campaign Against Nonexistent IRS ‘Health Gestapo’