ostentation in English

noun
1
pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice.
the office was spacious, but without any trace of ostentation

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1. Definition: Boastfulness Usage: boasting, show, arrogant display, ostentation; plur: occasions of ostentation

2. Her lifestyle was remarkably free from ostentation.

3. Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.

4. 22 They lived meanly and without ostentation.

5. 19 The statue has beauty without ostentation.

6. Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

7. 13 The statue had beauty without ostentation.

8. 2 Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.

9. 30 Her lifestyle was remarkably free from ostentation.

10. 6 Therefore, ostentation continues to have a purpose.

11. 3 Her lifestyle was remarkably free from ostentation.

12. 18 Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

13. 20 Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest.

14. 14 Choose a life of actlorl, not one of ostentation.

15. 16 Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.

16. 21 Forsake your greed, abandon your appetites of ostentation.

17. The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation.

18. 24 Do you reject his ostentation and glories in this world?

19. 25 Ostentation and revelry were ceased, for the sake of separation.

20. 1 Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation

21. Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.

22. 17 Chose a life of action,(www.Sentencedict.com) not one of ostentation.

23. 4 I don't like the ostentation of their expensive life - style.

24. Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation

25. 15 I thought that one is exaggerates; second, wins ostentation.

26. 5 Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.

27. The hospitality of luxury and the liberality of ostentation had ruined many.

28. 7 The hospitality of luxury and the liberality of ostentation had ruined many.

29. 9 Dusseldorf remains the capital of mindless extravagance; ostentation rules the KO.

30. Is it not one of harshness, brashness, gaudiness, ostentation, or narcissism?

31. 27 The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation.

32. 23 Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s.

33. 12 And there is the look: richness without ostentation and flash.

34. On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.

35. 11 His extravagance and ostentation were balanced by a natural dignity and reserve.

36. His extravagance and ostentation were balanced by a natural dignity and reserve.

37. 24 Dusseldorf remains the capital of mindless extravagance; ostentation rules the KO.

38. 28 It was a time not only of heroic inequality but of incredible ostentation.

39. 26 On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.

40. It was a time not only of heroic inequality but of incredible ostentation.

41. Synonyms for Blatancy include barefacedness, brazenness, conspicuousness, flagrancy, obviousness, ostentation, overtness, shamelessness, enormity and egregiousness

42. 29 Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation.

43. 10 With the decline of ostentation, or its vulgarization, wealth and hence inequality were no longer flagrantly advertised.

44. 162 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostentation": Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, Arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big

45. Bravado: 1 n a swaggering show of courage Synonyms: bluster Type of: fanfare , flash , ostentation a gaudy outward display

46. 7 Inside the church, the degree of elaboration and ostentation of both architecture and fittings indicates status and wealth in the community.

47. 30 However, a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality.

48. 8 Inside the church, the degree of elaboration and ostentation of both architecture and fittings indicates status and wealth in the community.

49. “For the most part,” says The New Encyclopædia Britannica, “the successors to Augustus continued his administrative policies and building program, though with less innovation and more ostentation.”

50. The creators of this wonder of the luxury and the ostentation are the exclusive preparadores Alchemist , that devote to chapar in gold the ceiling of the most exclusive cars.