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synonyms for ostentation
- affectation
- array
- boast
- boasting
- brag
- braggadocio
- bragging
- bravado
- demonstration
- display
- exhibition
- flamboyance
- flash
- flourish
- fuss
- garishness
- magnificence
- pageant
- pageantry
- parade
- pomp
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pretending
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- put on
- shine
- show
- showiness
- spectacle
- splendor
- splurge
- swagger
- swank
- vainglory
- vaunt
- false front
- flaunting
- grandstand play
- parading
- showing off
- vaunting
- window-dressing
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How to use ostentation in a sentence
You eschew ostentation when times are good, and you pay your fair share of the cost when times are bad.
He was a showman who indulged in ostentation and flamboyance.
Michelle Obama in Alexander McQueen: Lady in Red | Robin Givhan | January 19, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTIt can be shocking at first—the copious amounts of nudity, ostentation, “O” faces, all twisted, layered, sometimes even malformed.
The lower class were idle and lazy, and willing to serve any sovereign who appealed to them by ostentation.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonHe displayed no ostentation in dress, or equipage, or manners, to provoke the desire in others to humble him.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe malecontents at the coffeehouses of London murmured at this profusion, and accused William of ostentation.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayIn all this, we repeat, there is neither refinement nor elegance, but simply vulgar ostentation.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyShe is aristocratic to the nth degree, and is never over done; courage she has, but no ostentation.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete | Gilbert Parker
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