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Definition
intended to attract notice and impress others — especially with wealth in a vulgar way
- I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.4 — The Murders in the Rue Morgue (2% in)
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