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The book sounds a morose note as the old order is swept away by chavvy developers.

Go for shiny, chavvy even, but then team when very little flesh on show, uniform colours and quite conservative clothing.

And for driving around in hideously chavvy cars.

"I guess we were chavvy before chavs existed, when that dress sense was actually quite fashionable.

One quarter of people say they judge people instantly on hearing their name, with 'anything that sounds too chavvy' likely to receive the toughest critique.

Chambers - please explain in what way Guildford is NOT chavvy.

Lauren Socha, the actress who portrays Kelly, has described the character as being "a bit chavvy".

So chavvy, so cheap.

Let us remember that Burberry has only just recovered from a distinctly chequered past, which saw it narrowly escape death by chavvy overkill.

When Andrew's chavvy old schoolmate Kevin arrives with a dodgy claim, the young solicitor is more than ready to enter into a criminal fraud.

Tad chavvy, but not as chavvy as the Westward Westfield.

On his character's popularity Gazey commented that his main fanbase for the character are "Young, chavvy girls love him, but mums and grans adore him too."

It's the hottest ticket at London Fashion Week, and a brand that has recovered from its "chavvy" connotations to become a global powerhouse in the world of luxury style.

Turns out City boys are fairly predictable and favour three styles, the blue or white Oxford twill, the Bengal stripe and the potentially more chavvy white collar and cuff.

It’s completely irrelevant whether somebody’s stylish or not - you could have a very stylish, very miserable woman, or a very chavvy, very happy woman, and I’m more interested in the happiness.

The proposed royal engagements stand in contrast to the episode a year ago when Price was barred from the Cartier International Polo contest at Windsor because she was deemed "too chavvy".

I think that it’s now been established that I like to look good and dress smartly, so I feel that I should point out that I can’t stand chavvy jewellery.

More run-down and 'chavvy' seaside resorts such as Blackpool, Skegness and Torquay all trumped Brighton in the poll, which asked 'Which is the worst UK holiday resort?'.

Whenever I mislaid my Triple Thruster Swipemaster, or whatever, I would take myself down to Boots and try to choose a replacementwhich didn’t look like it had fallen off a spaceship, and a particularly chavvy spaceship at that.

So, it’s wrinkles versus smells; organic versus the lure of those inexpensive daily tanning moisturisers which may well be twice as toxic, since they’re doing two jobs in one; chic and pale and just a bit flabby-looking versus slightly chavvy but feeling great.

As Cameron tries to get Beckham and Prince William to focus on Fifa strategy and speeches, it becomes clear that this is less a dream team than "Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber," led by a captain who has always thought football rather "chavvy."

After then briefly considering a canon tattoo to represent my beloved Gunners instead, I realised that this was not only ridiculously chavvy, but also quite violent - I'm a placid guy I like to think, having a symbol of war on my arm that says "I'm going to end you" would probably send out completely the wrong message.

Channel 650 is seen running a spoof of the Hit young children's show The Tweenies called The Chavvy Wavvys, about an asbo-riddled & dysfunctional family comprising Chavvy Daddy, Chavvy Mummy, Chavvy Son and Chavvy Daughter.