Yet this quaint dandyfied little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police.

In contrast to his "not bad looks but seems a bit of a dandy" appearance, he didn't have a girlfriend and he wasn't particularly fast with the ladies.

He's a dandy.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever.

In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.