Sample Sentences for
ostentatious
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    ...each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen, my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table, drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner;  (source)
    ostentatious = attracting notice
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    A great many people were offended by her ostentatious displays of wealth, and by the shameless way she chased the limelight.  (source)
    ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
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    The building was choice enough to have a live doorman as well as ... a marble and gilt lobby accented with leafy ferns and exotic flowers in huge china pots. "Ostentatious," Eve muttered.  (source)
    Ostentatious = expensive and in poor taste; though intended to be classy
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    "I think," he said, settling himself ostentatiously upon Bill and Fleur's bed, "that the Skele-Gro has finished its work."  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
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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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    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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    Wendy didn't much care for Ullman or his officious, ostentatiously bustling manner.  (source)
    ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
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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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    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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