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as in loud
excessively showy
wears an ostentatious diamond ring on his little finger
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as in arrogant
self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance
an ostentatious man who desperately wants to impress people with his newly acquired wealth
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Recent Examples of ostentatious
There were no ostentatious lobbies, no scene-y pool decks, and no pressure to perform wellness.
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Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
5 June 2026
Hyd tries to bring the listener close without being ostentatious.
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H.d. Angel,
Pitchfork,
2 June 2026
Turner’s character, Declan O’Hara, is a righteous Irish journalist, also loquacious, also hot, but disgusted by ostentatious displays of wealth.
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Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
To the generation now eyeing the altar, such ostentatious bliss may be a relic of more innocent times.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for ostentatious
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
5 June 2026
Hyd tries to bring the listener close without being ostentatious.
—
H.d. Angel,
Pitchfork,
2 June 2026
Turner’s character, Declan O’Hara, is a righteous Irish journalist, also loquacious, also hot, but disgusted by ostentatious displays of wealth.
—
Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
To the generation now eyeing the altar, such ostentatious bliss may be a relic of more innocent times.
—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for ostentatious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ostentatious
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While the first two seasons often presented Lestat through structured tailoring and muted palettes, Season 3 arrives in a much louder world.
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They were all met with loud cheers on this Juneteenth evening.
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The passage is incoherent, yet, in conflating progressive reform with arrogant blind faith, it is perfectly suited to Vance’s cynical conservatism.
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To no one’s surprise, Bonnie is immediately transfixed by her Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee, whose arrogant smarm effectively threads the needle between Maya Hawke’s Anxiety and Regina George’s everything else).
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After Tuesday night’s noisy earnings report, FedEx is down around 1% in midmorning trading, off its lows of the session.
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McGee also prioritizes authentic community on platforms like Substack over noisy social media.
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Twenty-six years later, Kaufman was tapped to score indie developer Yacht Club Games’s Mina the Hollower, a throwback to the look and feel of 8-bit GBC games but with the type of colossal world, grandiose story, and elaborate gameplay typically reserved to the Soulsborne games.
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Waning enthusiasm for SpaceX’s stock this week could serve as a reality check for those buying into Musk’s grandiose visions.
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Chawinga, the back-to-back league MVP, has been a top on-field producer for the Current since arriving in 2024 as a relative unknown, despite gaudy statistics at Chinese club Wuhan Jianghan.
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Rewarding other prospects for putting up gaudy stats against lesser competition may not be the fairest way to judge this year’s defensemen class, but those production trends seem to be a factor for talent evaluators.
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Not to sound pretentious, but Elwood Dowd is sort of like a Christlike figure.
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Set the scene Sexy without being pretentious and bold without the brashness, Il Sereno is a lesson in artful restraint.
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Members of the monarchy wave from carriages, aristocrats don faintly cartoonish top hats and extravagant millinery threatens to obscure the view at every turn.
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The speakeasy-style room glows with a gold-leaf ceiling, ochre velvet sofas, and an extravagant cocktail menu.
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Among them a City boy wearing three Fit-Bit-type devices, two beautiful Middle Eastern sisters, an outrageously pompous elderly American (sorry; eavesdropping), and several Imelda Marcos lookalikes, tottering out of the treatment rooms with, somehow, their elaborate hairstyles still intact.
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The usually pompous Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9th had to be pared down for fear of Ukrainian drones.
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“Ostentatious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostentatious. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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