nattily

English

Etymology

From natty +‎ -ly.

Adverb

nattily (comparative more nattily, superlative most nattily)

  1. In a natty manner.
    He arrived at the party, nattily dressed and eager to socialize.
    • 1977 February 12, David Brill, “Conservative Chelsea in an Uproar Over New Bar”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 3:
      Perhaps the attitude of the city was best personified by a nattily-dressed gentleman who wormed his way into the hearing room at around 8:00 p.m. He did not ask what was going on, nor whom to address his extemporaneous remarks. "I just wanted to come in and be recorded against this," he said, and then left.
    • 2025 April 24, Ned Temko, “Trump’s ‘quick fix’ approach to diplomacy slow to yield results”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
      It was a tantalizing promise, delivered with Donald Trump’s trademark panache: As dealmaker in chief, he would quickly end world conflicts that had defied his predecessors and their nattily dressed legions of career diplomats.

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