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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Near the county arboretum in Arcadia, ostentations — the term for groups of peafowl — have been spotted chasing coyotes.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2021
Those aren't innovations; they're ostentations — cinematic showing off.
From Time • Mar. 8, 2010
Its luxuries and ostentations were, in themselves, perhaps bad for us.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Until he met Mrs. Clarke near the British Embassy he had scarcely been aware how sordid and ugly and common under its small ostentations Hughes's Hotel was.
From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Pride is born in a man, and will appear if he is ever so lowly; as also vanity, the more amiable quality, which expends itself in hospitalities and ostentations.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by Lord, John
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