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swanky

How to use swanky in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for swanky.

Editorial note

They will need to sell some of the swanky shops they have on the streets and become a little more like my ISP.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of swanky gathered in one view.

adjective

imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for swanky.

adjective

imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"

Example sentences

1

They will need to sell some of the swanky shops they have on the streets and become a little more like my ISP.

2

It's like a swanky hotel in a nice neighborhood deciding to start renting rooms by the hour.

3

In the end, when everyone realized what the person, he had already moved on to swanky new job. Karma is not a thing.

4

This happend to me a few years back in one of the swanky up-market apartment buildings in SoMA.

5

We also had a swanky in-house client-side MVC framework cooking with Cinco.

6

He even speaks at very swanky government events, and the big pep-rallies they had before the Olympics.

7

You can't apply a naive filter because people will end up getting penalised for using words like "scrape", "interstitial", "swanky", "spool", etc.

8

In fact the whole point of you buying that swanky apartment will evaporate overnight without service workers.

9

I just found a delightful article highlighting the phenomenon of swanky luxury cars being abandoned at the airport or on the streets.

10

Agreed on all parts - for me, I live in DC, in a neighborhood with good cab density, and Uber is in the cab business as well as the swanky car business.

11

You don't get in your car to go to Starbucks, you get in your car to go to work, home, or your "third place" for the day -- perhaps that swanky restaurant you're visiting with the missus.

12

You take that 7 figure investor money, get yourself a swanky downtown San Francisco office, and spend the days drinking beer with your "startup bros" until the money runs out.

13

Generous federal loan policies and capital expenditures on non-essentials like swanky 'luxury dorms' haven't helped.

14

Sorry, living in a swanky apartment in SoMa, eating out every night, pre-ordering hipster shit on kickstarter, taking Uber all the time and going to Tahoe on the weekends is not "the cost of living in SF".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use swanky in a sentence?

They will need to sell some of the swanky shops they have on the streets and become a little more like my ISP.

What does swanky mean?

imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"

What part of speech is swanky?

swanky is commonly used as adjective.