ostentation

[Os`ten*ta·tion]

Ostentation is a pretentious or showy display (gaudy or flashy), usually designed to attract attention. Ostentation is a woman in a fur coat, covered in diamond jewelry, boarding a gold plated private jet.

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The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

Noun
pretentious or showy or vulgar display

Noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Noun
a showy outward display

n.
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

n.
A show or spectacle.

Ostentation

Os`ten*ta"tion , n. [L. ostentatio: cf. F. ostentation.] 1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton.

He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation.

2. A show or spectacle. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting; boasting. See Parade.

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

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I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

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