ostentatious
IPA: ɑstʌntˈeɪʃʌs
adjective
- Of ostentation.
- Intended to attract notice.
- Of tawdry display; kitsch.
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Examples of "ostentatious" in Sentences
- Ostentatious behaviour is to be avoided.
- His clothes are cumbersome and ostentatious.
- Veteran cabalists frown on this practice as ostentatious.
- Ostentatious living or brash manners bored and repelled him.
- In other words, ostentatious displays are not relevant to God.
- Alexander was known for his ostentatious and luxurious lifestyle.
- After all, Swanson had practically invented the word ostentatious.
- He was ascetic in appearance and, at the same time, ostentatiously smug.
- The interior of the Coal Palace was no less ostentatious then its exterior.
- He accumulated a sizable wealth and was known for his ostentatious lifestyle.
- They cultivate their image for an air of obvious, but not ostentatious, menace.
- Well, if ostentatious is what you strive for in your digital equipment you’ll love the Douglas.
- It sounded like the kind of ostentatious new age compositions that John Tesh might have composed.
- His long, stricken pause when she asks him to come up with another word for "ostentatious" is as funny as his fumbling answers: "Delicious?
- A dance performed in ostentatious costumes, usually representing characters from the Robin Hood tradition such as Maid Marian and Friar Tuck.
- We dined anywhere from seven to nine, and soothed each other's irritation by calling ostentatious attention to the delicacy and perfection of each dish as it came on the table.
- A controversial 2004 law in France earlier prohibited Muslim headscarves and other "ostentatious" religious symbols in the classrooms of French primary and secondary public schools.
- By Gerry Baldo 08/18/2009 Sensing the public outrage that hasn't subsided over what has been described as the ostentatious and luxurious lifestyles of President Arroyo and her entourage displayed during her
- By Gerry Baldo 08/18/2009 Sensing the public outrage that hasn't subsided over what has been described as the ostentatious and luxurious lifestyles of President Arroyo and her entourage displayed during her New York has sent a memorandum to the Office of the Press Secretary, saying the New York Post report on the pricey dinner of President Gloria
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