as in pomp
excessive or unnecessary display
service that is the essence of swank: the waiters pull out your chair for you and even place your napkin on your lap
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or swanky
as in ornate
excessively showy
drove up in a red sports car, the swank interior of which was decorated in silver and black
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Recent Examples of swank
Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
The scarves were a way to bring softness to something masculine like a suit jacket, but the swank of the fabric in its length and elaborate draping pushed the feeling beyond refinement into something sublime, imperious, and cool.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Mar. 2023
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Harlequin is in the swank mode of her Tony Bennett albums Cheek to Cheek and Love for Sale, as well as her Jazz & Piano residency in Vegas.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Bernd Fischer, menshealth.com, 10 May 2023
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Noun
The bright blend of decor is just the right amount of kitsch, fun, and whimsy for a new 14-room townhouse in swank and swish Chelsea.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
The scarves were a way to bring softness to something masculine like a suit jacket, but the swank of the fabric in its length and elaborate draping pushed the feeling beyond refinement into something sublime, imperious, and cool.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Mar. 2023
Adjective
Many of the buildings look like skeletons, but the shops and markets stay open, by day people walk the streets, and the swank patrons of a dance club party into the night…
As a filmmaker, the British director Steve McQueen might be one of the last old-school classicists.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Harlequin is in the swank mode of her Tony Bennett albums Cheek to Cheek and Love for Sale, as well as her Jazz & Piano residency in Vegas.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Verb
The season of sunbathing in swim trunks, surfing in board shorts, and swanking about your style in slides—because no one wants to deal with the fuss of lacing up heft shoes and boots or the hassle of smelly socks.
—Bernd Fischer, menshealth.com, 10 May 2023
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Dune has the Two Towers issue of being the middle installment in a trilogy, and Gladiator, underneath its CGI pomp, is still a Ridley Scott film — and Sir Ridley hasn’t produced a major Oscar player in nearly a decade.Nate Jones, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
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Then, Samantha Leach will tell us how the television show Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is leading more than a few members of the Mormon church to choose pomp over piety.airmail.news, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
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Without ornate defensive features or the huge size of its fellow dinosaurs, Fona likely had to rely on speed, agility and alertness to best its predators.Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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For a less ornate option, the Container Store stocks an especially convenient acrylic jewelry wall rack with 11 pegs.Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 2 Jan. 2025
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Martin jumped in to say that Short was bragging about his own hairdo on the car ride to the award show.Raven Brunner, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Self-advocacy in networking is not about bragging or asking for favors.Samantha Alvita, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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To minimise disruption to day-to-day operations, most of the decorations are installed between 11pm and 7am when the park is closed to guests.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Seasonal cookbooks can be stored with decorations for that holiday Donate extra water bottles Reusable water bottles are great.Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
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True leadership isn’t about swaggering through crises of one’s own making or dazzling us with dramatic heroics.Martin Gutmann, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
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Bogart—best known as the swaggering nightclub owner from Casablanca and the scotch-slinging private detective from The Maltese Falcon—has been dead since the 1950s.Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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Photograph: Anton Petrus/Getty Images Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun—on January 13.Marta Musso, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2025
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After all, a movie-like spectacle such as The Mandalorian was probably a better way to get folks excited to sign up for Disney+ in 2019 than, say, a spinoff of The Good Doctor.Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
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Chuy's is also known for its maximalist and gaudy interior design and atmosphere.Beck Andrew Salgado, Austin American-Statesman, 18 July 2024
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They were hidden from Eliza by a palm made gaudy with orchids.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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This series reflects not only Muñoz’s personal experience working with his brother on their own vintage Toyota trucks, but also a particular style vaunted by working-class Latinos in Southern California.Stacie Stukin, ARTnews.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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But while rival European horologists vaunt the traditions of their centuries-old workshops, design duo Toledano & Chan’s new creation has a longer history altogether: It was carved from a meteorite that slammed into Earth around 1 million years ago.Oscar Holland, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Swank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swank. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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