ostentation
Usage
What are other ways to say ostentation?
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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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
But when the stock market crashed in 2008, it took ostentation down with it.
From New York Times
People began filing through the lofty cathedral to light candles and view the small, simple coffin with rope handles which Tutu had said he wanted to avoid any ostentation or lavish expenditure.
From Seattle Times
Quite often, those investments include yachts and jets, some of which are marvels of luxury and ostentation.
From Seattle Times
Near the county arboretum in Arcadia, ostentations — the term for groups of peafowl — have been spotted chasing coyotes.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
