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Significados de ostentation en inglés

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Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

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A gaudy and proud outward display.

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Uso de ostentation en inglés
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Again, it suggests the characteristic absence of all ostentation in His works.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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For there is nothing like ostentation or conceit of intellect in Portia.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
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Expensive equipages, making a show and ostentation of figure in the world.
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
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For he carefully avoided ostentation, and preferred doing his good in secret.
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
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He took pleasure in giving generously, but always judiciously and without ostentation.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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I was going into the dark and I was not afraid-withostentation.
Certain Personal Matters
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After an extraordinary display of ostentation, Longchamp was ousted in his turn.
Windsor Castle
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But Wolsey carried the matter much further than vain pomp and ostentation.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. / From...
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He lives simply, however, and detests and shuns personal notoriety or ostentation.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
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He did it with great ostentation, glancing significantly at me the while.
The Sea-Wolf
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It was not ostentation but merit, that won him the supreme command.
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
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My feelings are not those of pride or ostentation, upon the occasion.
Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
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The East repelled me by its pomp, its ostentation, and its impostures.
Recollections of My Youth
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For myself, I must say that I like absence of all ostentation.
Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
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She carried her later elevation to high rank without pride or ostentation.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
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I must give you an instance of his generosity, or rather ostentation.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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