spivvy BrE
spiffy AmE

The traditional dealer is spivvy and smart, but ill-educated.

One particularly spivvy dealer during an official Harvard Securities party urinated all over the floor.

What's more, away from the complexities of ring-fencing assets to safeguard us from spivvy investment bankers, the report was a damp squib.

Before then, he says, tax dodging was "a shameful activity indulged in by a spivvy minority", but then there was "a gradual moral collapse.

To the south, though, the explosive-crammed pod rushed over spivvy streets, directly above a barricade at the borders of Aspic and Barrackham.

This public backlash against the shoddy, callous and spivvy aspects of Mrs Thatcher's administration does not derive from the sense of chronic economic crisis which infected the politics of the 1970s but, rather, is born of prosperity.

The plot - five faintly spivvy crims, headed up by a bafflingly dastardly Alec Guinness, get an old lady to aid them in a bullion heist, then (spoiler alert) one by one die in their efforts to bump her off - apparently came, fully formed, to writer William Rose in a dream.

After all, many of them were young when radio was considered pretty spiffy.

She wants everyone to join in, too, with her spiffy company members.

But then he's always spiffy, which is no great surprise.

But you can easily see him in a spiffy suit.

From these fine players, the performances promise to be spiffy.

"Everything must be spiffy clean, especially the leaves," he went on.

A spiffy book, but please don't tell my mother I said that.

A few spiffy T-shirts remind us that we were there.

It probably didn't look too spiffy at the moment to Terry.

"Why dig yourself up such a spiffy hole and then not put anything in it?"

Then came four guys in spiffy suits, and I had to think this was a little unusual.

Thomas saved the day by giving her his spiffy red jacket.

With their spiffy new technology, the magicians in Hollywood can do just about anything.

Together, they add up to a spiffy summer suit, but either piece would have a dozen other uses.

"You want to move in with the spiffy one on a permanent basis.

Get me one of those spiffy new operating systems with the productivity feature!

Although she said he looked spiffy enough when he went off on his trip.

At the same time, we're shifting stuff from an older server to a spiffy new one.

But the pure, clear color actually looked pretty spiffy.

Certainly, the Rutgers group on this bowl trip is trying to project a spiffy image.

He was no longer wearing his police uniform but a spiffy coat and tie.

There were and are spiffy white groups as well, to be sure, but the black groups set the style.

Beneath their spiffy wedding outfits are characters you can believe in.

Every college student in America would like a new car or a spiffy off-campus apartment paid for by the government.

Before long he is the proud owner of a power suit and a spiffy new Cadillac.