be ostentatious
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
The Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who died Dec. 26 at age 90, had requested that his funeral not be ostentatious and that his body not be cremated by flame.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2022
For years, China's glamorous rich have been known to be ostentatious, showing off their luxury cars and handbags online - often to the envy of their followers.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2021
Being gay is a great thing to be ostentatious about, although using the correct pronouns to refer to your affianced hardly reaches “ostentatious” levels, in my book.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2017
A man can't very well be ostentatious of what nobody believes in.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
