ostentation
Usage
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Ostentation refers to vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Display applies to an intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.
Example Sentences
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Sunday afternoon at Walt Disney Concert Hall, his arm movements lacked ostentation and could barely be seen from behind.
From Los Angeles Times
The ostentation of the campaign stunned residents in a city so remote that it is not even connected to the country’s main power grid.
From Washington Post
It’s pure ostentation, as if a Ferrari had at last gotten its wish to become Rick James.
From New York Times
Sometimes, several boxes would be on exhibit, but not for reasons of ostentation.
From New York Times
Yet there was a distinct lack of ostentation in the Procol records, and whatever virtuosity the musicians possessed was put to the service of the music, rather than the other way around.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
