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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It’s not, perhaps, the best time for Meta, whose frames have drawn comparisons to Cybertrucks as exemplars of self-satisfied ostentation, to debut Starfire Kylies.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
And she has gold lozenges painted all around the perimeter of her shroud, done tastefully, without obvious ostentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
If you excuse the ostentation of the sentiment, Watters is absolutely correct.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025
The last time I was in New York, the then prime minister – with more than a splash of ostentation – took us reporters to the top of the Empire State Building for interviews.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
And the subtlety of their ostentation drew my attention.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing ostentation
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