Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ostentatious manner; with great display; boastfully; in a way intended to attract notice.
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- adverb In an
ostentatious manner;extravagantly orflamboyantly .
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- adverb with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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During the House debate on the Ten's contempt citations, Rankin ostentatiously unfurled a CFA petition in support of the Ten and began to read, a performance intended to raise once more the specter of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy in Hollywood and to warn the recalcitrant CFA members that they could be tarred with the same Red brush as the Ten:
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Yet Raphael, eschewing mystery, signed his name ostentatiously on his courtesan's arm band, left her undressed, and gave her face a knowing expression.
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Yet Raphael, eschewing mystery, signed his name ostentatiously on his courtesan's arm band, left her undressed, and gave her face a knowing expression.
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Government was in office, with Lord Randolph Churchill as its leader in the House of Commons; and one of the first acts of the new leader was to separate himself ostentatiously from the Irish policy of Lord Spencer and from the policy of coercion in general.
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I don't wish to influence others, but it jars upon me to have my name ostentatiously paraded in the public prints. "
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He sat down in the spot Sophia had just vacated on the bed, laying his glistening sword ostentatiously across his lap.
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At Delhi, the gates of the city walls are called ostentatiously after distant places -- the _Kashmîr_, the _Kâbul_, the _Constantinople_ gates.
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That was why the father, arriving from Berlin, had on his own initiative brought them an English governess; for the English are admitted by their continental friends to excel in this special branch of manners, while their continental enemies charge them with being "ostentatiously" well groomed and dainty.
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Poor folk, even slaves, began to dress ostentatiously.
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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