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- adjective
comparative form ofposh : moreposh
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Examples
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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.
Words, no pictures The List Writer 2008
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's a page of "facts" some of them dubious: "Women talk 'posher'.
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The book's other memorable character, a waitress at one of New Delhi's posher restaurants, occupies the opposite end of the social ladder.
Beautiful and Damned, or Just Dazed and Confused? Sadanand Dhume 2011
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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.
UK riots: PM's big speech leaves young audience unimpressed 2011
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Though I'm guessing you mean she's trying to do a posher, more southern accent?
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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.
We shouldn't rejoice in the death of the News of the World | Peter Wilby 2011
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His deputy Wilson was the posher, more rakish John Le Mesurier, who looked down on his superior.
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