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Ostentatious 1100 Words You Need Week 12 Day 4

Ostentatious 1100 Words You Need

/ˌɒs.tenˈteɪ.ʃəs/ (adj)

too obviously showing your money, possessions or power, in an attempt to make other people notice and admire you, showy, flamboyant, flashy, affected, brazen, grandiose, pretentious:

pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.

They criticized the ostentatious lifestyle of their leaders.

an ostentatious gesture/manner

Antonyms: modest, meek

Noun: ostentatiousness

Noun: ostentation: showiness, panache, pretentiousness, flamboyance, flashiness, conspicuousness

Adverb: ostentatiously

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