display
Usage
What are other ways to say display?
Display applies to 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. Ostentation is vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. 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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An unfortunate presentation of three golden unitards designed by Halston for Graham’s 1981 “Acts of Light” makes them look more lumpy than revealing as they lifelessly cap the display.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The building in the nation's capital that houses the Kennedy Center continues, however, to display Trump's name on its facade for the time being.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
She is an aesthete, someone who likes to go to the race track just to revel in the colors on display there.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
On display outside the building were seven rows of rocket launchers fresh off the factory floor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
And while there could be no open display of celebrating for Aunt Kitty and myself after our work on the murder case, we both were feeling the satisfaction of another mystery solved.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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