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ostentatious
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    Ostentatious, isn't it?  (source)
    Ostentatious = showy (intended to attract notice and impress others)
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    Those days are gone. Vatican cars were now less ostentatious and almost always unmarked.  (source)
    ostentatious = showy
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    She thought they were ostentatious and gas-guzzling, so she drove an oh-so- practical Volvo wagon instead.  (source)
    ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
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    ...rattling his box of Galleons ostentatiously so that Hermione scowled.  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a way intended to attract notice
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    For the next fifteen minutes, I follow Mother and Missus Whitworth from one ostentatious room to the next.  (source)
    ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
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    with the spots having none of the classy ostentation of a leopard's rosettes;  (source)
    ostentation = something that attracts notice and impresses others
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The neck and the plaits of hair and the white hands folded decorously in her lap all stood in sharp contrast to her black mourning outfit and gave Susan Marie the air of an unostentatious young German baroness who had perhaps just recently lost her husband but had not in the face of it forgotten how to dress well, even when she dressed to suggest grief.†  (source)
    unostentatious = not intended to attract notice and impress others
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unostentatious means not and reverses the meaning of ostentatious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Unlike other men engaged in the spirit-stirring business of war, they stole from their camp unostentatiously and unobserved resembling a band of gliding specters, more than warriors seeking the bubble reputation by deeds of desperate daring.†  (source)
    unostentatiously = not in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unostentatiously means not and reverses the meaning of ostentatiously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    She dresses well and exudes self-confidence as she offers a grand tour of her home and work area, ostentatiously showing off the television and the new plumbing.  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
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    The fourth was ... dispatched with a spinning kick. But the most ostentatious was saved for the last pair. The manservant rolled on to his back, caught them by the collars of their donkey jackets and flipped them into Dublin harbour. Big splashes, plenty of wailing.  (source)
    ostentatious = intended to attract notice
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    the men all have the same first name but are commonly known by their middle names, presumably to avoid the ostentation of I, II and III or Junior and Senior.  (source)
    ostentation = something that seems intended to attract notice and impress others
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    It was then explained to him that a mixed marriage was a very unostentatious affair.†  (source)
    unostentatious = not intended to attract notice and impress others
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    Well, she was a Powys married to an Ashburnham—I suppose that gave her the right to despise casual Americans as long as she did it unostentatiously.†  (source)
    unostentatiously = not in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
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