swanky
IPA: swˈɑŋki
noun
- Alternative form of swankie [(Scotland) An active and clever young fellow.]
adjective
- (informal) Rather posh, elegant, ritzy.
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Examples of "swanky" in Sentences
- Once it had a swanky IT company pic.
- Swanky is a well known type of beer.
- Very swanky place, playboy's playground really.
- Deleting the Swanky article would be a disservice.
- At Sheila's swanky party, the girls use drugs again.
- Swanky Kong is another character who is common to the game.
- The writer immortalized the swanky bar in Islands in the Stream.
- Mackris moved to a swanky new apartment not long after the suit was settled.
- The Overnighter from Benefit Cosmetics, is described as a swanky sleepover set.
- Hopmeyer lived well too, driving a 2005 Jaguar XJ and calling a swanky Yorkville pad home.
- Went from 4 stories in swanky hood to 2 stories in less-swanky, but much more convenient hood.
- Despite their brevity, I just love her tastes in swanky background music (the theme from Mannix — yeah!).
- More and more land is acquired in this part of the city to turn old mills and dilapidated structures into swanky new residential towers.
- Although this film boasts beautiful black and white cinematography and Joan looks great in swanky Adrian-designed duds, this film falls short of the ‘33 version in every department.
- Bukowski Tavern, a craft-beer bar, isn't exactly what I'd call "swanky," on account of the high tattoo coverage, but it did serve as the perfect search result when I told the app I wanted to be "around hipsters" also, I believe, a circle of hell.
- The settlers live large on the West Bank, often in swanky houses, using up 80% of the available water (while nearby Palestinian farmers watch their livestock die of thirst*), and sitting on vast reserves of unused land allocated to them by the Israeli state.
- While frolicking tourists sunbathe on beaches and dine in swanky resorts, while a few thousand elite Moroccans are living high on the hog, millions of malnourished, destitute, and sallow Moroccans in remote rural areas scratch the dirt for survival and take shelter in dwellings so sparsely furnished and poorly built that they look like caves.
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