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Swank   /swæŋk/   Listen
Swank

verb
1.
Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously.  Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off.
noun
1.
Elegance by virtue of being fashionable.  Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness.
adjective
1.
Imposingly fashionable and elegant.  Synonym: swanky.



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"Swank" Quotes from Famous Books



... phenomenon. The difficulty is how to classify it, since, upon no question appertaining to the psychic, can one dogmatize. To quote from a clever poem that appeared in the January number of the Occult Review, to pretend one knows anything definite about the immaterial world is all "swank". At the most we—Parsons, Priests, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Psychical Research Professors,—at the most can only speculate. Nothing—nothing whatsoever, beyond the bare fact that there are phenomena, unaccountable by physical laws, has as yet been ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

... nation's voice. When he uttered his electric outburst of wrath against "this drilling, trampling foolery in the heart of Europe" he gave expression to the pent-up exasperation of years of smouldering revolt against swank and domineer, guff and bugaboo, calling itself blood and iron, and mailed fist, and God and conscience and anything else that sounded superb. Like Nietzsche, we were "fed up" with the Kaiser's imprisonments of democratic journalists for Majestaetsbeleidigung ...
— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various



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