modish

comparative more modish · superlative most modish

1. 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.

   1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83

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   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.

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

   [James] Bridle borrows Timothy Morton’s modish conception of the “hyperobject” as a way of discussing our inability to apprehend the totality of the risks embodied in such vast phenomena as machine intelligence and global warming – but I’m not sure that acknowledging the ungraspable nature of anything really helps us to grasp it.

   2018 June 30, Will Self, “New Dark Age by James Bridle review – technology and the end of the future”, in The Guardian

2. In the current mode.

   It’s surprisingly hard to track down plain old strawberry ice-cream these days – it seems to have been usurped by more modish combinations […]

   2020 August 12, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect strawberry milkshake – recipe”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020