exhibitionistic

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But this exhibitionistic Oedipus is the star of the show’s unnecessary preface, a belabored warmup act that should have been cut in rehearsals.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

Mona is brilliant, superficial, mysteriously bruised, exhibitionistic, insecure, vain and impossibly glamorous.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021

Late in life, he scored a musical about the life of the fin de siècle exhibitionistic painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 23, 2018

Artists are a particularly self-conscious, sometimes self-indulgent, and always exhibitionistic community—they exist to call attention to themselves—so it makes perfect sense that they draw disproportionate notice in the gentrification debate.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2013

Here, the 'stage' of the microscope refers obviously to the theatre, so often the scene of exhibitionistic activities.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various