Sample Sentences for
ostentatious
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    some talked loudly, and profaned the Sabbath day with ostentatious laughter.  (source)
    ostentatious = attracting notice in an unrefined way
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    They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode,  (source)
    ostentatious = intended to impress others
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    Malfoy yawned ostentatiously.  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a showy way (intended to attract notice)
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    ...several commanders in different uniforms came in. They ostentatiously took down names. ... The next night there were even fewer boys.  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice
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    Her understated dress was in marked contrast to her ostentatious house:  (source)
    ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
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    In the graveyard, polished granite is replacing marble, and verses are becoming scarce: ostentation lies in size and solidity, not in ornamentation.  (source)
    ostentation = the way they try to impress 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)
    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)
    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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    Women who had ostentatiously crossed the street when they saw Belle coming, wondered if she remembered and trembled for fear she did.  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a showy way (in an attempt to attract notice)
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    You have insisted on my entertaining you to an exceedingly expensive, not to say ostentatious, lunch...  (source)
    ostentatious = showy
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    yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.  (source)
    ostentation = an action 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)
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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)
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