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swanker

ADJECTIVE

plush, stylish

Synonyms

WEAK

chichi classy deluxe exclusive expensive fancy fashionable flamboyant flashy glamorous grand lavish luxurious ostentatious peacocky plushy posh pretentious rich ritzy sharp showy smart snappy splashy sumptuous tony trendy with-it

Antonyms

WEAK

modest poor

ADJECTIVE

exclusive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chic elegant fancy fashionable posh ritzy swanky

STRONG

absolute choice chosen circumscribed closed complete confined entire full independent licensed limited narrow particular private privileged segregated select single sole total whole

WEAK

aloof aristocratic clannish classy cliquish country club discriminative exclusionary exclusory only peculiar preferential prohibitive restrictive selfish snobbish socially correct undivided unique upper crust

Antonyms

STRONGEST

old-fashioned poor unfashionable

STRONG

deficient dependent imperfect incomplete indefinite inferior needy open part partial public together unfinished unlimited unrestricted

ADJECTIVE

fashionable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chic genteel mod posh stylish swanky trendy upscale

STRONG

chichi contemporary current dashing favored fly latest modern now prevailing smart trig

WEAK

a go-go a la mode all the rage customary faddy hot in style in vogue in-thing last word latest thing modish natty new newfangled popular rakish trendsetting up to the minute up-to-the-minute usual well-liked with it à la mode

Antonyms

STRONGEST

old-fashioned poor unfashionable unstylish

STRONG

antiquated dull old past

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

"He's a swanker," was the greeting of Miss Press, as she offered her hand and then withdrew it playfully before Mr. Harper could take it.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

"And I never shake hands with a swanker, do I, Bonser?"

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.