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  • The Microsoft building location is a great one: up in the north of the city, located in a very wealthy (and I would say "poshy"

    TechNet Blogs 2008

  • The longer this campaign lasts the more we'll hear his racist comments, get to know his acquaintainces, his poshy habbits, and so on ...

    NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity' 2008

  • Ever helpful, Henderson compiled an honor roll of the 10 best Twisters tearing up the tiles "in the poshy salons of Beverly and Bel Air."

    A Twist in Time Wolcott, James 2007

  • Because he was chummy with John Paul II, he received a cushy job at St. Mary Major in Rome which is where poshy tourists like to attend mass.

    04/08/2005 2005

  • To add to the general confusion: I remember a poshy and slighty snobbish male friend telling me that more than 2 bises were characteristic of “province” or, worse, “paisants” and that, generally speaking, the less bises, the higher on the social ladder.

    french kissing 2004

  • So the two of them rode in unaccustomed silence to the gray Victorian block of apartments on the corner of Fifth and Central Park South, a very exclusive gray Victorian block of apartments, and she supposed that made her a block-buster, and she knew there were people in those poshy-poshy flats who would not speak to her unless they absolutely had to, and she didn't really care.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • Lynn LaVallee, a.k.a. @poshy, and her friend Jessica Zollman, a.k.a. @jayzombie, in town for the South by Southwest music and media conference, consummated their roommate-ship early.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • Well maybe not Harrods but it still had all very poshy la la boutiques and gorgeously dressed people darling.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • The first place we tried for accommodation was full ... not to mention possibly a little poshy la la for the likes of us and the second, Chez Alice was also full.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • All they care is their poshy position and those Euro 85K per annum and of course plus the perks!

    timesofmalta.com 2009

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