as in aristocratic
being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
I don't appreciate your ritzy advice about whom I "should" associate with
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Recent Examples of ritzy
In prosecutors’ telling, Mazzola was part of a criminal plot to lure big-fish gamblers to ritzy tables surreptitiously outfitted with card-scanning devices, X-rays and other cheating equipment.
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Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
The new construction follows a drastic renovation of the White House’s Rose Garden, which prompted backlash and elicited comparisons to the president’s ritzy Florida property, Mar-a-Lago.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
My first apartment here was a short walk from Happy Gilmore’s house, located in the ritzy Shaughnessy neighborhood.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
Last month, after significant pushback from residents in the ritzy neighborhood, discussions of implementing a general improvement district, which would have paid for improvements by increasing property taxes, were abandoned.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
The new construction follows a drastic renovation of the White House’s Rose Garden, which prompted backlash and elicited comparisons to the president’s ritzy Florida property, Mar-a-Lago.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
My first apartment here was a short walk from Happy Gilmore’s house, located in the ritzy Shaughnessy neighborhood.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
Last month, after significant pushback from residents in the ritzy neighborhood, discussions of implementing a general improvement district, which would have paid for improvements by increasing property taxes, were abandoned.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ritzy
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Rosewood Schloss Fuschl, meanwhile, is located in the former hunting lodge of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, and its Munich branch sits at the former Bavarian State Bank headquarters and the adjacent Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, originally an aristocratic residence from the 1700s.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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Federalist critics in Congress argued the colonnades looked aristocratic.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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This version of Ryan was arrogant, unable to conceal pride in his accomplishment.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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So long as that situation continues, the 43-year-old’s allegedly arrogant and stand-offish treatment of his players will not worry the club hierarchy too much.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Ritzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ritzy. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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