ritzy

Once a working-class port city, now Vlore has a beachfront lined with ritzy bars, restaurants catering to tourists, and blocks of hotels.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The public had also bid $15,000 on the olive-green painted wood front gates to the only home Monroe ever owned in the ritzy Brentwood neighbourhood.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

There was an instant attraction between the two, and Longet relocated to Aspen, Colo., and ultimately moved into the pro skier’s ritzy Starwood chalet around 1975.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

The Canadian-born performer was rushed to the hospital on January 30 after having difficulty breathing at her home in the ritzy Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

And it also sounded ritzy to say, “My husband, Mr. Johnson, the naval dietician, went over to Mexico to buy some things for our dinner.”

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

One of the ritzier camps, Midway employs a staff of cooks and personal valets and boasts an extensive wine cellar.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2023

The Western diplomat estimates that the proportion of women refusing to publicly wear the hijab in the ritzier neighbourhoods of north Tehran is even higher than 20%.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023

Detractors who bristle at Tan and Wang’s depiction of China as a backwater will surely find some solace in Crazy Rich Asians, which highlights the continent’s ritzier, less tradition-bound present.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2018

Still, she and her best friend fantasized about a ritzier life on the other side of town, far from her family’s duplex on Brown Street.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017

Cordelia’s family moves to a different, larger house, in a ritzier neighborhood farther north.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Fraisse put it to me, pointing to two of the capital’s ritziest addresses.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

His 16th restaurant is not just the most personal to date, it’s the ritziest.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019

The startup even planned a grand showcase in late August at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, one of the ritziest car shows in the world.

From The Verge ● Dec. 31, 2018

L.A.’s Xanadu: It’s the type of location moguls dream of: 120 acres of undeveloped land in one of L.A.’s ritziest pockets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2018

One of my black classmates, a nerdy boy who was always kind to everyone, had parents who’d founded a big beauty-supply company and lived in one of the ritziest high-rises downtown.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama