ostentation
Usage
What are other ways to say ostentation?
Ostentation refers to vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Display applies to an intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.
Example Sentences
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Ostentation triumphed along the lower Mississippi, where Louisiana sugar planter John Andrews built his 75-room mansion Belle Grove in the late 1850s to overshadow neighboring Nottoway with its 64 rooms.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Ostentation born of insecurity remains an undeniable fact, and Miami is its monument; but there is now enough old money and new taste in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display ruled, but not the fear of the Lord.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
A third fault in his Sentiments, is an unnecessary Ostentation of Learning, which likewise occurs very frequently.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Ostentation is never typical of a true success.
From Successward A Young Man's Book for Young Men by Bok, Edward W.
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