ostentatiousness
Example Sentences
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Tutu had insisted there should be "no ostentatiousness or lavish spending" on the ceremony and that he be given "the cheapest available coffin".
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2022
“The archbishop was very clear on his wishes for his funeral. He wanted no ostentatiousness or lavish spending,” the Tutu trust said in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
The notorious $15,000 ostrich jacket, the desperate living beyond his means, the ostentatiousness — these all very predictably go with the pretense of the boaster.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2018
Perhaps this ostentatiousness obscures the real question of how deep his influence has been.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2013
Whenever I have heard such sermons I have wanted to get up and stalk out of the church with ostentatiousness of contempt, as if to say to the preacher that his conduct did—not—meet—with—my—approval.
From The Delicious Vice by Allison, Young Ewing
