All 3 Uses of
ostentatious
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark.†
Chpt 16
- For instance there was the case of O'Callaghan, for one, the halfcrazy faddist, respectably connected though of inadequate means, with his mad vagaries among whose other gay doings when rotto and making himself a nuisance to everybody all round he was in the habit of ostentatiously sporting in public a suit of brown paper (a fact).†
Chpt 16
- in evening dress cut ostentatiously low for the occasion
Chpt 16 *ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
Definition:
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(ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way