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ostentatiously

[os-ten-tey-shuhs, -tuhn-]

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adjective

characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.

(of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice: Lady Bountiful's ostentatious charity.

Origin:
1650–60; ostentat(ion) + -ious

Related forms

os·ten·ta·tious·ly, adverb

os·ten·ta·tious·ness, noun

un·os·ten·ta·tious, adjective

un·os·ten·ta·tious·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. See grandiose.

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Example Sentences

While senators voted on that motion, he stood with a clipboard in his hand, ostentatiously noting the name of anyone who voted no.

Several fast-food chains and consumer-goods firms have ostentatiously dropped it from their recipes.

Also called grey-crowned cranes, these ostentatiously adorned birds are known for their.

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While senators voted on that motion, he stood with a clipboard in his hand, ostentatiously noting the name of anyone who voted no.

Several fast-food chains and consumer-goods firms have ostentatiously dropped it from their recipes.

Also called grey-crowned cranes, these ostentatiously adorned birds are known for their.

It's also more ostentatiously over the top than anything in the sky.

Ginsburg dutifully canceled his television appearance and has been ostentatiously growling at pursuing newsies ever since.

Before the economy opened up, a chic suit meant one with the label of a state-owned factory sewn ostentatiously on the sleeve.

The hotel's staff was deftly bilingual and ostentatiously courteous, though the service was clumsy.

The government has ostentatiously solicited public opinion about the change.

He then kept regular office hours and maintained an ostentatiously clean desk.

And even wealthy people who are not feeling the pinch may have become more cautious about spending ostentatiously.

The museum's directors have twice before ostentatiously opened the doors.

They are ostentatiously parsimonious, advertising their determination to keep prices down.

Few commanders in history have had such splendid opportunities, and fewer still have so ostentatiously thrown them away.

He took out a heavy pistol from the holster on his belt and ostentatiously deposited it in a cupboard beside his desk.

One man ostentatiously went to the portable toilet and left the door open.

It often ostentatiously orders a second season of a show the same day the first episode of the first season is broadcast.

Fish astounds his band mates by ostentatiously vomiting in his hand, which he then sticks in his pocket.

He then kept regular office hours, and maintained an ostentatiously clean desk.

Storefront synagogues and housing projects were still more typical than bars with ostentatiously unmarked doors.

Leichter ostentatiously asked the employer to recite his telephone numbers.

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World English Dictionary

ostentatious (ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəs)

—*adj*
	characterized by pretentious, showy, or vulgar display

ostentatiously

—*adv*

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ostentatious

1701, from ostentation. Related: Ostentatiously.

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"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses,—for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it,—not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."

-Herman Melville

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