dashing

adjective

dash·ing ˈda-shiŋ

Synonyms of dashing next

: marked by vigorous action : spirited

a dashing young horse

: marked by smartness especially in dress and manners

dashingly

ˈda-shiŋ-lē

adverb

Examples of dashing in a Sentence

She married a dashing young lawyer from the city. a brave and dashing soldier The actor cuts a dashing figure as a young Jack Kennedy.

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Pair these sandwiches with your most dashing summer cocktails and let the party begin. —

Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2023 Dressed in a man’s dapper suit, Kim Morgan Dean plays Hastings with plucky earnestness and dashing style. —

Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023 Instead, he’s played by Emmy Award winner Peter Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, at his most dashing and heroic, spinning swords and swinging onto stages. —

Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021 LAWs are not the dashing and glamorous surface combatants from the Navy’s stockpile of great sea stories. —

Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for dashing