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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On Bravo, the most iconic personalities are usually a deft combination of combativeness, pride, and ostentation.
From New York Times
Litchfield County in northwestern Connecticut has always been long on wealth and status but short on the vulgarities of the Hamptons, and within its frame, Cornwall has remained singularly averse to ostentation.
From New York Times
Rain fell in the overnight hours with little ostentation but dogged persistence.
From Washington Post
“The ostentation with which the troops are being moved confirms that Russia is saber-rattling rather than contemplating a blitzkrieg,” Maxim Samorukov, a fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center, wrote on its website Monday.
From Seattle Times
Discretion, not ostentation, has now become the norm when it comes to wealth.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
