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What does ostentation mean?

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Noun
  1. Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
  2. (obsolete) A show or spectacle.
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I found him kind and benignant in the domestic circle, revered and beloved by all around him, agreeably social, without ostentation.
By the beginning of the twentieth century the representative symbols of luxury and ostentation had come full circle.
But they had to be careful not to show their wealth with too much ostentation.
Gabel cues with care but without ostentation, he addresses sections of the orchestra and he stays with them.
Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge.
Stylish Mike doesn't like it if you suggest that his enthusiasms are all about ostentation and conspicuous consumption.

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