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Meanings of ostentatious in English
Intended to attract notice and impress others.
Usage of ostentatious in English
1
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
2
Will they criticise the security measures as overweening, ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
3
Fthoom was still going on, sentence after ostentatious sentence, about the Alliance.
4
A not too ostentatious clatter of dishes came through the closed folding-doors.
5
He dressed in plain, ordinary clothes rather than extravagant or ostentatious ones.
6
To take part in an ostentatious pageant, nothing could be better devised.
7
There's some large men in pristine sportswear, and some pretty ostentatious watches.
8
He now detested the ostentatious thing, attributing to it a fatal influence.
9
She found it unnecessarily ostentatious, a distraction from the school's humanitarian goals.
10
Besides, luxury cars have so far escaped Beijing's crackdown on ostentatious spending.
11
I never wanted such an ostentatious ceremony, but, well, heroism is heroism.
12
I could think of nothing else that would be wide-andnot ostentatious.
13
He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.
14
A gift must not be ostentatious, but it should be worth offering.
15
He evidently WAS, and responded by blowing her an ostentatious equine kiss.
16
Mere empty-headed conceit excites our pity, but ostentatious hypocrisy awakens our disgust.
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Ostentatious through the time
Ostentatious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common