Meaning of ostentate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.
   rare, transitive
2. To boast, show off.
   intransitive, obsolete, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“It cannot avoid⟳ the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge⟳ and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.”

“Society insisted that it was bad form⟳ to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.”

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