All 7 Uses of
ostentatious
in
Moby Dick
- they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives
Chpt 34-36 *ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
- Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest.†
Chpt 46-48ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
- But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable, free-and-easy whaler!†
Chpt 52-54unostentatious = not intended to attract notice and impress othersstandard 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.
- What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish?†
Chpt 88-90ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
- To this gentleman, Stubb was now politely introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put on the aspect of interpreting between them.†
Chpt 91-93ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
- While the Frenchman's boats, then, were engaged in towing the ship one way, Stubb benevolently towed away at his whale the other way, ostentatiously slacking out a most unusually long tow-line.†
Chpt 91-93
- The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the ship's prow for the equator.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way