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Meanings of ostentation in inglês
português
fausto catalão
grandiloqüència Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
Usage of ostentation in inglês
1
Again, it suggests the characteristic absence of all ostentation in His works.
2
For there is nothing like ostentation or conceit of intellect in Portia.
3
Expensive equipages, making a show and ostentation of figure in the world.
4
For he carefully avoided ostentation, and preferred doing his good in secret.
5
He took pleasure in giving generously, but always judiciously and without ostentation.
6
I was going into the dark and I was not afraid-withostentation.
7
After an extraordinary display of ostentation, Longchamp was ousted in his turn.
8
But Wolsey carried the matter much further than vain pomp and ostentation.
9
He lives simply, however, and detests and shuns personal notoriety or ostentation.
10
He did it with great ostentation, glancing significantly at me the while.
11
It was not ostentation but merit, that won him the supreme command.
12
My feelings are not those of pride or ostentation, upon the occasion.
13
The East repelled me by its pomp, its ostentation, and its impostures.
14
For myself, I must say that I like absence of all ostentation.
15
She carried her later elevation to high rank without pride or ostentation.
16
I must give you an instance of his generosity, or rather ostentation.
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Translations for ostentation
português
Ostentation through the time
Ostentation across language varieties
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