ostentation

Ostensibly his vocation was that of a travelling farm-hand, but it was all ostentation.

The lower class were idle and lazy, and willing to serve any sovereign who appealed to them by ostentation.

He stopped at the best hotels and betrayed all his old fondness for ostentation.

I wouldn't put his arms upon my carriage, however, because that would mean nothing but ostentation.

Yet his talents never seduced him into an ostentation, nor did he harp on one string.

With its false appearance and ostentation, and its world-wide prevalence, it is commonly accepted as legal.

There was no ostentation with those Bishops of This or That in partibus infidelium.

He despised the ostentation of wealth in the accumulation of mere things.

And any one who knows Edison will bear testimony to his utter absence of ostentation.

Nor can he ever hope to live down this terrible social misdemeanour, especially if it is accompanied by the least ostentation.