Ostentatious
[,ɒsten'teɪʃəs] or [,ɑstɛn'teʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) intended to attract notice and impress others; 'an ostentatious sable coat' .
(adj.) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar .
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Definition
(a.) Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Boastful, vain, showy, dashing, flaunting, pompous, vainglorious, fond of display.
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Examples
- Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was neither ostentatious nor luxurious, neither did he care about social position, not finally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Well, that's partly it, said Mr. Venn, with ostentatious sentiment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Smugglers landing laces and silks have been known to wind them around their bodies, as being less ostentatious than carrying them in a trunk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No costume could be less ostentatious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation: 'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A man can't very well be ostentatious of what nobody believes in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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