ostentatiously love

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 or flamboyantly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner

Etymologies

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ostentatious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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 2007

  • Yet Raphael, eschewing mystery, signed his name ostentatiously on his courtesan's arm band, left her undressed, and gave her face a knowing expression.

    This Beauty Still Beguiles Amy Finnerty 2008

  • Yet Raphael, eschewing mystery, signed his name ostentatiously on his courtesan's arm band, left her undressed, and gave her face a knowing expression.

    This Beauty Still Beguiles 2008

  • 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.

    Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862

  • I don't wish to influence others, but it jars upon me to have my name ostentatiously paraded in the public prints. "

    Luke Walton Horatio Alger 1865

  • He sat down in the spot Sophia had just vacated on the bed, laying his glistening sword ostentatiously across his lap.

    The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963

  • At Delhi, the gates of the city walls are called ostentatiously after distant places -- the _Kashmîr_, the _Kâbul_, the _Constantinople_ gates.

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • 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.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • Poor folk, even slaves, began to dress ostentatiously.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • 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 Eric Simpson 2011

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