swanker
Example Sentences
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Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet.
From Time Magazine Archive
To stop one owner from taking three buildings nonunion, 15 janitors and organizers staged a mock funeral, carrying a coffin symbolizing "the death of justice" past the owner's home in one of Washington's swanker neighborhoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
I made a serious blunder when I asked one of them a question about Ypres, for I pronounced the name French fashion, which put me under suspicion as a "swanker."
From Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by Hall, James Norman
"And I never shake hands with a swanker, do I, Bonser?"
From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.
