noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the ostentation and idleness of the rich
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there is the look: richness without ostentation and flash.
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His extravagance and ostentation were balanced by a natural dignity and reserve.
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However, a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality.
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Inside the church, the degree of elaboration and ostentation of both architecture and fittings indicates status and wealth in the community.
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It was a time not only of heroic inequality but of incredible ostentation .
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Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation .
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Therefore, ostentation continues to have a purpose.
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With the decline of ostentation , or its vulgarization, wealth and hence inequality were no longer flagrantly advertised.