Ostentation

[,ɒsten'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ɑstɛn'teʃən]

(noun.) pretentious or showy or vulgar display.

(noun.) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

(noun.) a gaudy outward display.

Checker: Maisie--From WordNet

(n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

(n.) A show or spectacle.

Editor: Sasha

n. Display, show, parade, flourish, dash, pomposity, pompousness, pageantry, high pretension.

Typed by Agatha

SYN:Show, parade, display, flourish, pomp, vaunting, boasting

ANT:Reserve, retirement, modesty, concealment, unobtrusiveness, quiet, diffidence

Typist: Susan

And any one who knows Edison will bear testimony to his utter absence of ostentation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Every body tells that, but with as little ostentation as I may, I doubt the word of every he who tells it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. Jane Austen. Emma.
Ostentation, Hackbutt? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
The Church patronised it, even with ostentation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Kathleen