What does tony mean?
Tony means (informal, Canada, US) Stylish, high-toned, upscale..
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/ˈtəʊni/ · adjective
(informal, Canada, US) Stylish, high-toned, upscale..
“He’d scorn it. You heard what he said to-night,” answered Ben. “Never mind that. He’s got tony notions, but he isn’t a pamby, for all his talk.[…]”
"No ladies or any of your tony friends?"
He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues.
Meanwhile, on another plane entirely, “Another Period” (Comedy Central, recently renewed for Season 2) is a send-up of crunchy-gravel dramas, set in tony Rhode Island in 1902.
My host gained national notoriety after her high-profile arrest in 1993 on charges connected with running L.A.'s toniest prostitution ring.
The meaty and more familiar parts of Anna’s story — passing as a German heiress, ripping off tony hotels, brazenly exploiting narcissistic machers and star-struck working women — are told in flashback as Vivian reports her article.
it would have serv'd for a Caution to People how they trifle and play the Tonies betwixt Jeft and Earnest
A pattern and companion fit / For all the keeping tonies of the pit.
Use tony when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tony means (informal, Canada, US) Stylish, high-toned, upscale..
Common synonyms include swank.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“He’d scorn it. You heard what he said to-night,” answered Ben. “Never mind that. He’s got tony notions, but he isn’t a pamby, for all his talk.[…]”
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