The word "ritzy" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to things or places that are expensive, fashionable, or luxurious. For example: "We stayed in a ritzy hotel during our vacation."
He liked his beer and his tucker; he was ordinary-sounding bloke who seemed more at home in the front bar of his local than in a ritzy uptown club.
That's another ritzy fashion term for swapping your clothes with your mates.
Oh yes, and the ritzy French bakery has opened a second branch.
Mr Kenyatta, one of Kenya's richest oligarchs, who next month will complete his first year in office, is reportedly fond of similar ritzy watering-holes.Barely a mile away from the Capital Club, the acrid fumes of charcoal fires in Kibera, a notorious slum, mingle with the stench of sewage running down the muddy alleys where perhaps 800,000 Nairobians live in hugger-mugger squalor.
But he has a down-to-earth manner, wears an $18 watch, drives a 20-year old beat-up van, and prefers cheap motels to ritzy hotels when on the road.Nor is Mr Quinn corrupt.
Ads aren't usually terribly formal, of course, but this one is for quite a ritzy service, which is why it struck me.
The black smoke grew thicker and more noxious as angry protesters set fire to tyre-and-bamboo barricades and the ritzy shopping area where they had bedded down for several weeks.The assault on the fortified camp was methodical and met only scattered resistance from gunmen holed up inside.
The artificial island was built for millionaires and is crowded with mansions and ritzy apartments.
Yet fresh from the ritzy Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mr Powell seems as full of zest for public office as ever.
Supposedly, he was covering a wave of crime near a ritzy beach resort south of Buenos Aires called Pinamar.
And the divorce proceedings of Jack Welch, the long-time chief executive of General Electric, showed that commitments were made to carry on providing perks to bosses well after their retirements, such as the use of corporate jets and ritzy apartments.
