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ostentatiousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | inflation, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| Type of | inelegance |
| Derivation | ostentatious |
Examples of ostentatiousness
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Even Texas, at the height of its own oil-fed frenzy, never managed such ostentatiousness.
From the chron.com
Inspired by the King himself, Gold Boutique drips with ostentatiousness.
From the latimes.com
In fact, Cothron believes their ostentatiousness was an asset.
From the edition.cnn.com
In these troubled times, ostentatiousness is out, austerity in.
From the time.com
He frequently revisits the posture, for the Destroyer leader isn't much for directly connecting with the audience or practicing ostentatiousness.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Its two-story aquarium is bigger than a typical suburban home in Houston, yet it somehow manages to seem almost mundane, a backdrop to the sheer ostentatiousness of the surrounding hotel.
From the chron.com
He managed to hit populist notes without seeming trite, academic reasoning without channeling Ben Stein, and delivered some grand passages without straying into ostentatiousness.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
In the nonfiction pieces, the shock of an encounter with a transsexual or the ostentatiousness of truffle fries with Lenny Kravitz substitutes for thought and analysis.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In the dialogue, Socrates criticizes Telauges for his extreme asceticism and Critobulus for his ostentatiousness, apparently in an attempt to argue for a moderate position.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Ostentation: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- Boasting is the act of making an ostentatious speech. It is considered a vice by such major religious groups as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Boasting has also been studied by such evolutionary psychologists as Robert Wright.
