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ostentatious
adjective as in flashy, showy
Strongest matches
classy, conspicuous, extravagant, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, glittery, jaunty, splashy, swank
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Example Sentences
Additionally, when food inflation and rising beef prices prevail, it’s hard to imagine that ostentatious couture would be at the top of consumers’ spending list.
Today it’s hard to imagine the White House without the North Portico, but when it was added under Andrew Jackson, it was called costly and ostentatious, Mr. McLaurin writes.
They saw what they considered to be ostentatious displays of wealth, including travels to London, France and the Dominican Republic and scenes of Side partying on a yacht in the Caribbean.
Less exotic and certainly less ostentatious than the supercars, it nevertheless makes up more than half of the company's sales.
The fish proceeds to carry out an ostentatious dance, flashing her scales in the hopes of attracting the poet’s attention and inspiring him to write about her.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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