preppily


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Related to preppily: preppy

prep·py

or prep·pie  (prĕp′ē)Informal
n. pl. prep·pies
1. A student or former student of a preparatory school.
2. A person whose manner and dress are deemed typical of traditional preparatory schools.
adj. prep·pi·er, prep·pi·est
Of or relating to a preppy or a preparatory school.


prep′pi·ly adv.
prep′pi·ness n.
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preppily

(ˈprɛpɪlɪ)
adv
informal in a preppy manner
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Standing on a sloped patch of grass in Derby, Kramer, who is preppily dressed and sports a thick mane of side-parted dark hair, nervously smiles and rarely looks his interlocutor in the eye as he explains why he thinks "Lawrence would be proud" of his page-to-screen transfer.
"MY WORK CAN LOOK LIKE PINTER," warns Thomas Bradshaw, the preppily dressed 30-year-old playwright, "but it's definitely not." Observe the author's note that graces the beginnings of Bradshaw plays.