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Significados de ostentation em inglês

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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 em inglês
            1
            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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