Posher

We went to Aberporth and stayed in that very railway carriage a couple of years ago, I think it was due to be upgraded at the end of that season so it may be a bit "posher" now. ❋ The List Writer (2008)

Your inability or unwillingness to use Osborne's chosen name for something you obviously think 'posher' is very revealing., and not in a good way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And Your inability or unwillingness to use Osborne's chosen name for something you obviously think 'posher' is very revealing., and not in a good way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Conversely, we also know a few rozzers and the chief inspector of Bromley sends his kids to the local comp (which has now come up a long way and offers a really strong grounding and vocation-led curriculum) because his officers are called out - for knives and such like - more to the so-called 'posher' schools. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's a page of "facts" some of them dubious: "Women talk 'posher'. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The book's other memorable character, a waitress at one of New Delhi's posher restaurants, occupies the opposite end of the social ladder. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2011)

The posher villages north of Witney – the Camerons live in one of them – include some shady citizens, investment bankers, peers of the realm, former News of the World executives. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Though I'm guessing you mean she's trying to do a posher, more southern accent? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a house down by the Swamp dear and a posher one the other end of town ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

I'm with Bryan: the common misuse of "parameter" must surely be because it sounds like "perimeter", but somehow posher. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But all were once part of the national conversation, the subject of gossip and jokes even around middle-class dinner tables and frequently of follow-ups in posher papers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These are the type of things that if you ask some people on the other side of the fence or from a posher community or people that have never been in trouble, if you said to them: 'Oh, I got stitched up by police with a knife,' they are saying: 'No, police don't do things like that.' ❋ Unknown (2011)

When I was a randy adolescent in London, boys my age talked feverishly of wanting to bag a girl from one of the posher schools. ❋ Jay Rayner (2010)

His deputy Wilson was the posher, more rakish John Le Mesurier, who looked down on his superior. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For instance, the company will assume that in the Lajpat Nagar neighborhood of Delhi, the cost of constructing an apartment is an average of 800 rupees ($18) per square foot, while in posher Defence Colony nearby, the cost of construction is, say, 1200 rupees ($27) per square foot. ❋ Shefali Anand (2011)

A posher product image, though, does not make for an inherently healthier product. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Old Etonian journalist David Thomas, says, "Eton is just considered to be exponentially posher and therefore more offensive than any other school." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both have a light, confiding, neutrally RP voice, though David Cameron has posher vowels. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Old Etonian journalist David Thomas says, "Eton is just considered to be exponentially posher and therefore more offensive than any other school." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Far from being mired in frustration, knowing how their white counterparts lived more lavishly, delighted to entertain family and friends, to live, in gracious surroundings, even as posher neighborhoods slowly opened to African Americans, until their deaths, in 1983 and 1984, here the Basies would remain, proud and contented. ❋ Unknown (2010)