ostentatiousness

Example Sentences

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Despite her privileged background, "there is no ostentatiousness," said Mr Walker, who last saw Ms Murty joining in with a Christmas carol service.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 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

There is also an element of pragmatism in our shunning of martial ostentatiousness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

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