ostentation
IPA: ɔstɛntˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
- (obsolete) A show or spectacle.
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Examples of "ostentation" in Sentences
- He lived a simple life and avoided ostentation.
- It directly followed the discourse on ostentation.
- In manner, he is unassuming and without ostentation.
- In Germany, much importance was attached to ostentation.
- It was an exercise in ostentation, spurred by the window tax.
- Specially, the one is kind and very clean without ostentation.
- Both main facades are of simple, clear design devoid of ostentation.
- The article is meant to be laudatory but without obvious ostentation.
- This carelessness and ostentation reduced Bacon to frequent distress.
- The ostentation of the exterior lets us know that what might lie within.
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