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ostentatious
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The Good Soldier
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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.†
Part 1unostentatiously = not in a manner intended to attract notice and impress othersstandard 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.
- She opened the door of Ashburnham's room quite ostentatiously, so that Florence should hear her address Edward in terms of intimacy and liking.†
Part 1 *ostentatiously = in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
- She had as many priests to stay with her as could be needed—and even the priests did not want a gorgeous chapel in that place where it would have merely seemed an invidious instance of ostentation.†
Part 3ostentation = actions intended to attract notice and impress others
- At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.†
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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)