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ostentatious
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synonyms: affectation, venditation ???
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Definition:(of actions) intended to impress or attract notice
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Stretching and yawning, I sat up, ostentatiously rubbing my eyes to avoid looking at either of the speakers.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Prince: [standing] Roast my raisins! He's popped it! I say, Blackadder, do you think he really was the Scarlet Pimpernel?
Blackadder: Well, judging from the ridiculous ostentatiousness of his death, I would say that he was.
Prince: Well, then, that's a damn shame, because I wanted to give him this enormous postal order.
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Nob and Nobility
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My father would sit in the old iron lawn chair with his leg stretched out in front of him and propped up slightly on an ostentatious boot scraper that Grandma Lynn had found in a curio shop in Maryland.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.159 (2002)
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and with which whetstones, at dinner, [the harpooneers] would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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For the next fifteen minutes, I follow Mother and Missus Whitworth from one ostentatious room to the next. Mother gasps over a genuine Yankee bullethole in the front parlor, the bullet still lodged in the wood.
Kathryn Stockett. The Help, p.313 (2009)
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Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,—as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,—were posted at the front door;
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's offers of refreshment.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Then she sighs, rises heavily, and wipes her hands with ostentation on her apron, to show me how much trouble I am.
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