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  • adjective slang Elegant or sophisticated, especially in a pretentious or contrived manner.

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Examples

  • You can die with your secret ... miserable piss-elegant fairy.

    October 2005 2005

  • I hung out with all these piss-elegant queens … Jimmy Donohue – have you heard of him?

    Mommy, Andy and Me 2001

  • The Berliners' deep stringy mahogany sound was deliciously offset by the art deco suavity of the penultimate set-piece - the Grecian equivalent of some piss-elegant society tea-dance.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • "Mystery writers and filmmakers rarely make piss-elegant queens their detective heroes," writes

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "Mystery writers and filmmakers rarely make piss-elegant queens their detective heroes," writes

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • It resembles the world's most piss-elegant nuclear power plant-look at the copper-oxide-colored roof, turret-like center structures, and the delightful Bayside location providing cooling waters for all those toasty transuranic fuel rods. "

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

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