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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Ostentation triumphed along the lower Mississippi, where Louisiana sugar planter John Andrews built his 75-room mansion Belle Grove in the late 1850s to overshadow neighboring Nottoway with its 64 rooms.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Ostentation born of insecurity remains an undeniable fact, and Miami is its monument; but there is now enough old money and new taste in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
As much Courage and Intrepidity as you please; but a virtuous Man will never display his Valour with Ostentation, where the Laws of God and Men forbid him to make Use of it.
From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard
One may become wiser and better by several Methods of Employing one's Self in Secrecy and Silence, and do what is laudable without Noise, or Ostentation.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
An humble Demeaner is assum'd from a Principle of Pride, and the Wants of the Indigent relieved out of Ostentation.
From The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) by Dodsley, Robert
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