Both Uses of
ostentatious
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- When school went out Anne marched to her desk, ostentatiously took out everything therein, books and writing tablet, pen and ink, testament and arithmetic, and piled them neatly on her cracked slate.†
p. 111.7ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
- Anne dropped the apple as if it were a red-hot coal and ostentatiously wiped her fingers on her handkerchief.
p. 130.4 *
Definition:
intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way