ritzy
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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
He’s hopeful that the establishment’s popularity will eventually wane with the ritzy crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
The Hilton, in a ritzy Washington neighborhood, has long hosted the White House correspondents’ dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
It’s in a ritzy suburb just outside of town.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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
These pink grapefruit bars are a ritzier take on lemon squares.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 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
Cordelia’s family moves to a different, larger house, in a ritzier neighborhood farther north.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
The ritziest pool of investors, which included senator Frank Flint and his brother, Motley, still got paid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
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
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
