swank
IPA: swˈæŋk
noun
- A fashionably elegant person.
- Ostentation; bravado.
- A surname.
verb
- To swagger, to show off.
adjective
- Fashionably elegant, posh.
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Examples of "swank" in Sentences
- Swank was 20 years old at the time.
- Ben Swank if he wanted to play a show.
- Betty finds work at a swank restaurant.
- It stars Hilary Swank in the title role.
- Take the page for Hilary Swank as an instance.
- This was a second edition of the book by Swank.
- Swank eventually signed onto the project as the lead.
- They host affairs in swank clubs and glitzy restaurants.
- And there is to be no "swank" or "side," no putting on airs.
- Step one crashing a swank restaurant to showcase their moves.
- After all that trouble, and after all that distressing bathroom damage, the results are pretty freakin 'swank.
- The Hayes Conference Center - and its so-called "swank digs" - offered a venue at less expense than the university.
- Sometimes through a touch of Antonio Jobim and Brazilian jazz, or the style of a martini glass, or the breeze through a palm tree, or Diana Krall … and my regular ritual in honor of swank is the Pimm’s Cup.
- He was evidently, immensely pleased with his own little bit of book-learning; he even insisted on talking and writing Latin -- pure "swank" -- whereas his family would surely have preferred their native Frankish.
- While I was out there, I store-hopped and picked up a frame and matting supplies in order to spiffy-fy that sketch I was sent the other day -- and now my work area doth verily look swank, which is quite conducive to um ... working.
- Putin's gang? put enemy combatants up in swank hotels? terrorists do NOT have "rights." if you think Gitmo was "tourture," then you missed my historical examples and perspective of not being the "polite warrior." there is no such thing as a John Kerry "gentle, kinder" type of war. true, ideally, wars should be avoided, but not at the cost of selling one's own life/country out.
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