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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Quite often, those investments include yachts and jets, some of which are marvels of luxury and ostentation.
From Seattle Times
Near the county arboretum in Arcadia, ostentations — the term for groups of peafowl — have been spotted chasing coyotes.
From Los Angeles Times
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
A group is, appropriately, called an ostentation, but sometimes also dubbed a muster or a pride.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
