Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
pretentious; boastful.
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Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.
--Dryden.
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The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ostentatiousness
n : lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and
puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, pomposity, pompousness,
pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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