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View definitions for be ostentatious

be ostentatious

verb as in grandstand

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The Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who died Dec. 26 at age 90, had requested that his funeral not be ostentatious and that his body not be cremated by flame.

For years, China's glamorous rich have been known to be ostentatious, showing off their luxury cars and handbags online - often to the envy of their followers.

From BBC

"I say. Don't be ostentatious. Call him off, Jake."

On the court, he really is in the right place almost all the time: he has a sense for how the game is moving and the strength to control it, though he tends not to be ostentatious about this.

A Bay Area fashion stylist, Saba Ali, remembers a lively conversation in early 2017 with “some people saying there’s no such thing as Islamic fashion, since the faith says you should not be ostentatious,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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