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Synonyms for swank

show off

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Synonyms for swank

catering to, used by, or admitting only the wealthy or socially superior

to walk with exaggerated or unnatural motions expressive of self-importance or self-display

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Synonyms for swank

imposingly fashionable and elegant

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Seen on site were Mic-E Reyes, Swanker, Phelper, Joe Brook, Eben S, Zak Hawthorne, Hufs SF crew, the Convertitos, Linda Swenson, Hell's Belle J, Pee Wee Rotsaert, Bones Brigade Teddy Bennett, Tony Vitello, Oaktown Jamie, Danny Fuenzalida, Chenzo, Luke, Randy Scanna, Ms Bianca, Gywnned Rose, Ert, William Haugh, Jeremy Ortega, Trent, easily several hundred more.
Oh, and he'll also tell you about running into their school chum Swanker Watson and his family and the big heist they found themselves smack in the middle of and how, with wits and luck, they managed to thwart the bad guys and not get thrown off the ship.
Matlock's vocal recalls Ian Hunter and Steve Harley from time to time, and an instrumental cheekily titled The Swanker closes the set, sounding like a 21st century Shadows in a Spaghetti Western.
He stands revealed as a lightweight charlatan, an electoral opportunist with no philosophy, principles or balls; a money-loving ham who, if not personally corrupt - and taking freebie holidays from the repressive Egyptian government is right on the borderline - merrily tolerates dubious donations in his name; a man whose only ambition is to find new parts of the world in which to swank - and did British politics ever know a bigger swanker than Tony Blair?