What's the difference between chic and stylish?

Chic


Definition:

  • (n.) Good form; style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (2) "The rise of trainers and slip-ons, the Birkenstock … Certain designers are shifting our perception of chic," she says.
  • (3) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) La Perla apparently thought its chic customers – who drop hundreds of dollars on high-status underthings – would relate to, or admire, such a vision.
  • (6) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
  • (7) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (8) The restaurant has an industrial chic feel, and a great atmosphere any day of the week.
  • (9) The hit single "Around the World" displayed a then-unfashionable love of disco which attracted the attention of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
  • (10) Surroundings are chic but comfortable, children are welcome, staff are friendly, burgers are from traceable Scottish beef and start at £5.75, chips are thick and homemade, and they play old soul and r'n'b.
  • (11) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
  • (12) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
  • (13) Abo Rabieh is part of a renaissance of the Syrian art scene in recent years, with a steady stream of works appearing in chic galleries in Paris, London and Dubai.
  • (14) But while graffiti artists have benefited from the radical chic factor, the beau monde never hired street vendors to give them some rebellious cool.
  • (15) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (16) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
  • (17) It is not hard to imagine her, possibly wearing her stilettos, at the wheel of a heavy vehicle: chic but tough, she's a woman who bridges the divide between cosmopolitan and traditional Africa.
  • (18) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
  • (19) So think twice before booking that flight (unless you're going for its other assets – its chilled-out beach towns , chic resorts , and unspoilt interior .
  • (20) A woman who sports Chanel dreams of being a chic Parisian demoiselle.

Stylish


Definition:

  • (a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scientists are looking at making fabrics that can absorb poisonous gases or harmful bacteria, or conduct electricity, and be used to make stylish garments.
  • (2) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (3) City’s play is as stylish as anything Prada has to offer at New York fashion week.
  • (4) This year, after a generation of terminal decline, it won an award for stylish restoration that saved the birthplace of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury , the great 19th-century reformer who took up Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery, and saw it through to victory.
  • (5) The reception area segues into the equally stylish Restaurante el Disparate.
  • (6) And a few young Muslims, of course, become radicalised, hijacking Islam for violent extremism and hatred, the polar opposite of Generation M. Stylish cover-up: inside International Modest fashion week Read more I ask her who the book is aimed at.
  • (7) Equally popular was the stylish Borsalino, starring Belmondo and Alain Delon as insouciant gangsters in 1930s Marseilles.
  • (8) Side-entrance shame The brochure for the upmarket apartments of One Commercial Street, on the edge of the City, boasts of a "bespoke entrance lobby ... With the ambience of a stylish hotel reception area, it creates a stylish yet secure transition space between your home and the City streets".
  • (9) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (10) Welbeck was fouled 25 yards out and the wall parted obligingly as Van Persie sized up his shot and pulled back that stylish left foot.
  • (11) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Stylish neckwear The design of The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps Anderson’s most ambitious effort yet and, true to impeccable form, the neckwear is not found wanting.
  • (12) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
  • (13) If United occasionally looked slow in thought and movement, it was because their opponents passed the ball so stylishly.
  • (14) To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.
  • (15) The lodge’s stylish restaurant, The Tree House, offers cuisine that blends the best of Peruvian, Asian, Italian and Latin American flavours.
  • (16) Both were better than I expected when I watched them perform before Christmas, though neither too stylish or lively.
  • (17) There is an increasing number of boutique hotels – I spent a night at the super-stylish Estalagem in nearby Ponta do Sol, which has recently opened a cheaper, funky sister property, Hotel da Vila .
  • (18) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
  • (19) From his brutal Pusher trilogy to the weird and wonderful anti-biopic Bronson , these films are more like art installations, shimmering with stylish violence and near-hallucinatory moments.
  • (20) "That is probably not the way to create some of the stylishness."