How to use posh in a sentence

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• Sure, the posh git spoke with fine lustre. ’S all a load of bollocks, though, innit?From the entry luster
• On Monday, al-Megrahi’s brother, Abel Nasser, spoke to reporters outside the villa, in the posh Dimashq neighbourhood.2011 August 30, David D. Kirkpatrick, Rod Nordland, Alan Cowell, “Extradition of Lockerbie bomber ruled out”, in The Gazette, Montreal…. From the entry Dimashq
• So rather than posh skin creams that overpromise, a good brow job gives instant results.2008 December 6, Tiyana Grulovic, “Brows are a gal's best accessory”, in Globe and Mail. From the entry overpromise
• You think I'm posh and my folks think I'm tobogganing down-market faster than the royal family.2006, Keith Dixon, Altered Life. From the entry toboggan
• It turned out she was posh, or posh-ish, having been to a public school somewhere in Hampshire.2005, Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey, section 223. From the entry public school
• Ye're just like one of the lads, but sometimes there's a posh bogger trying to scramble out."1998, Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot. From the entry bogger
• Duncan — you can't get a really posh stone for less.1972, Bruce Marshall, The black oxen. From the entry quidlet
• Not unless you’re the Queen’s butler or one of those gents who holds the doors open at posh department stores.2024 July 30, “The Complete Guide To Men’s Dress Shirts”, in FashionBeans. From the entry dress shirt
• Full of posh pricks, you said once.2022, Nicole Kennedy, After Paris. From the entry gap yah
• But while often seen as a symbol of the BBC’s commitment to diversity, she is, herself, thumpingly posh.2016 March 24, Sebastian Shakespeare, “'No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim': Moment Burma democracy heroine Suu Kyi…. From the entry thumpingly
• Come back here with your cut glass, posh English accent and waitrons everywhere will melt at your feet.2010 May 10, Sam Cowen, “Jo'burg and London, relatively speaking”, in Daily Telegraph, →ISSN. From the entry waitron
• “They put adverts for posh, expensive cars up in poor neighbourhoods where people have no chance of ever affording them.2009, Steve Wright, Home Sweet Home: Banksy’s Bristol: The Unofficial Guide, Tangent Books, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry mindwash
• Or are you in that posh private one in Wakey?2008, Milly Johnson, The Yorkshire Pudding Club. From the entry wakey
• The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies.2005, Georgina Hunter-Jones, Peckham Diamonds, Fly Fizzi Publishing, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry totty
• “Oh, pish posh,” Miss Beauregard didn't buy it.2004, Greg Johnson, The Loony Bin Blues: The Next Generation Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest, page 264. From the entry pish posh
• Only they could use the posh lounges.2000, Todd Matshikiza, With the Lid Off: South African Insights from Home and Abroad 1959-2000. From the entry privilegee
• A posh milliner at that – so Jessica said.1993 November, Hilda Hollingsworth, chapter 5, in Places of Greater Safety, Berkeley, Calif.: Zenobia Press, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry titfer
• As I crunched on a baked goat’s cheese and caramelised onion veg chip, I silently cursed myself for only stocking the posh hand-cooked ones.2023, L.M. Chilton [pseudonym; Luke Chilton], chapter 12, in Don’t Swipe Right, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN. From the entry wotsit
• POSH is the perfect alternative to . . . stopping in a filthy, germ-infested public restroom to drop anchor. . . .2014 February 24, Ashley Burns, “A Company Will Soon Offer A VIP Public Restroom In New York City For $8 A Plop”, in UPROXX Web Culture…. From the entry drop anchor
• I wanted to fit in with the posh, horsey girls, all honey-blond hair and plums in their mouths, fresh from boarding school.2007, Emily Franklin, It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties. From the entry plum in one's mouth
• Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost.2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 29. From the entry totty
• Hanby was impressed by the fact that his mate was — as he put it — "lagered up and wearing posh kit".2003, Sean Nixon, Advertising cultures: gender, commerce, creativity. From the entry lagered up
• A certain real-estate-and-media mogul is taking very long lunch hours looking at posh pied-à-terres or, pardonnez my French, do I mean pieds-à-terre?1991, Edward Stewart, “Fifty”, in Deadly Rich, Delacorte Press, page 367. From the entry pardonnez my French
• Posh fashion types described the look as “mermaidcore” – dressing like a mermaid to you and me – but singer Sarah Hudson said: “Gimme these shooooooes!!”2022 September 5, “Dua’s flash landing…”, in Irish Daily Star. From the entry mermaidcore
• Essentially, these are the tiny seedlings of any plant with edible leaves, which can be harvested and eaten at the sprouted stage – basically posh cress.2021 January 24, James Wong, “Baby leaves are a joy to grow – and good to eat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry microgreen
• Osborne is said to have been ragged by fellow Bullers over having attended St Paul's, the top London day school, which is, apparently, not posh enough.2008 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Young, rich and drunk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry buller
• The places I raved about weren’t the posh, fine-dining restaurants, but the declasse zhi cha joints, preferably with seating in an alleyway next to a longkang.2008 October 5, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13. From the entry zi char
• She would drive into Leeston to that posh hairdresser's, 'Sue and Nicky', and have the whole cabosh, especially a rinse to bring out the copper glints in her hair.2007, Frances Paige, The Learning Curve, page 149. From the entry cabosh
• Dualism is the philosopher René Descartes’ notion that selves are ‘thinking things’, mysterious entities on the (posh) incorporeal side of a strict division between high mind and lower matter.2004, Kathleen Taylor, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry Cartesian dualism
• Not exactly a juice or a puree, tomato water has crept onto menus in posh restaurants around the country and has celebrity chefs vying for the title of creator.1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 41, page 29. From the entry tomato water
• One night she invited me to meet her from her advertising agency in a rather posh Mayfairish pub and I was saying to her, “What does this character look like?”2013, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Newspapermen. From the entry Mayfairish
• Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.2000, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mother Kind, page 156. From the entry Julie

Meaning of posh

1. adjective Associated with the upper classes.
2. adjective Stylish; elegant; exclusive; luxurious; expensive.
3. adjective Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.

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How do you use posh in a sentence?

Posh is used as an adjective, interjection and noun. For example: “She talks with a posh accent.”

What is a short sentence with posh?

“She talks with a posh accent.”

What does posh mean?

Posh means associated with the upper classes.