Thesaurus / ostentation

ostentation

How to use ostentation in a sentence

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

He displayed no ostentation in dress, or equipage, or manners, to provoke the desire in others to humble him.

The malecontents at the coffeehouses of London murmured at this profusion, and accused William of ostentation.

In all this, we repeat, there is neither refinement nor elegance, but simply vulgar ostentation.

She is aristocratic to the nth degree, and is never over done; courage she has, but no ostentation.

The procession of one of the mighty, on the other hand, was marshaled with all possible display and ostentation.

For there is gathered in indestructible stone all the fear, ostentation, 40and vulgar pride of our brothers.

A very general fault in the men was an unfortunate rivalry, engendered by the ostentation and bad taste of the others.

The ostentation of the court had become an onerous ceremony, the monarchical principle an unendurable constraint.

He had a singular abhorrence of luxury, waste, and ostentation.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985