ostentation

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Ambitious display; pretentious parade; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause
A show or spectacle
a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery
{n} outwar or vain show, parade
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
to show or display
disapproval If you describe someone's behaviour as ostentation, you are criticizing them for doing or buying things in order to impress people. On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation. when you deliberately try to show people how rich or clever you are, in order to make them admire you (from ostentare , from ostendere; OSTENSIBLE)
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; usually in a detractive sense
pretentious or showy or vulgar display lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity a showy outward display
of excessive show in an attempt to impress others; flamboyant, pretentious
pretentious or showy or vulgar display
{i} ambitious demonstration; showiness; garishness
a showy outward display
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{n} a show, appearance, token, prodigy
ostentatiously
{a} with pomp or parade, vainly
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{i} appearance, impression; portent, omen
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Appearance; air; mien
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Manifestation; token; portent
ostentatiously
in an ostentatious manner; extravagantly or flamboyantly
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in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U N general assembly"
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ostentatiously
in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U
ostentatiously
in an ostentatious manner, showily, bombastically, in a garish fashion, grandiosely
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