All 8 Uses
ostentatious
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Middlemarch
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- His dull expectation of the usual disagreeable routine with an aged patient—who can hardly believe that medicine would not "set him up" if the doctor were only clever enough—added to his general disbelief in Middlemarch charms, made a doubly effective background to this vision of Rosamond, whom old Featherstone made haste ostentatiously to introduce as his niece, though he had never thought it worth while to speak of Mary Garth in that light.†
Chpt 1ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
- The Vincys lived in an easy profuse way, not with any new ostentation, but according to the family habits and traditions, so that the children had no standard of economy, and the elder ones retained some of their infantine notion that their father might pay for anything if he would.†
Chpt 3ostentation = actions intended to attract notice and impress others
- On the contrary, he would have despised any ostentation of expense; his profession had familiarized him with all grades of poverty, and he cared much for those who suffered hardships.†
Chpt 4
- Lydgate's instinct was fine enough to tell him that plain speech, quite free from ostentatious caution, would be felt by Mr. Casaubon as a tribute of respect.†
Chpt 4ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
- nothing is more offensive than this ostentation of reform, where there is no real amelioration.
Chpt 5 *ostentation = actions intended to attract notice and impress others
- "Ostentation, Hackbutt?" said Mr. Toller, ironically.†
Chpt 5
- A man can't very well be ostentatious of what nobody believes in.†
Chpt 5ostentatious = intended to attract notice and impress others
- Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)