Swanky is informal for fancy and expensive: a fashionable place designed to impress. A swanky restaurant with a rooftop terrace, a swanky new office. It can be admiration or light mockery: everything is there to be seen.
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a swanky hotel / restaurant / apartment; look swanky
- The old warehouse is now a swanky restaurant with a rooftop terrace.
- His swanky new office has a view over the river.
- We wore ordinary coats to the surprisingly swanky opening party.
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First versionThe formal property report describes the reception area as swanky.
RevisionThe formal property report describes the reception area as luxurious.
The grammar is fine; the problem is register: casual swanky doesn't belong in a formal report. Luxurious or upscale give the same meaning in neutral language.
Snazzy means stylish and eye-catching, not necessarily expensive. Swanky means expensive and grand. Posh means fancy and also upper-class.
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Choose the neutral adjective for a formal property report: The reception area is ___.
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luxurious — A formal report needs luxurious. Swanky is grammatically fine but sounds casual.
Tell a friend about a fancy place and a detail that's meant to impress visitors.
The swanky cinema has wide leather seats and a small lamp beside each table.
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