How To Use Ostentatiously In A Sentence
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Many nobles now ostentatiously turned their backs on public life, as beneath their dignity.
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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She took it, with an air of eager curiosity, and looked at the seal, ostentatiously coroneted; and at the superscription, reading out, To Robert Lovelace, Esq. —
Clarissa Harlowe
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All this work - hard work: far too hard for his own good - was done quietly and unostentatiously behind the scenes.
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He also ostentatiously supported the death penalty.
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She could not "call up spirits from the vasty deep" of the cellar, but she had procured some whiskey from her next-door neighbour – some five or six miles off, and there it stood somewhat ostentatiously on the table in a "greybeard," with a "corn cob," or ear of Indian corn stripped of its grain, for a cork, smiling most benevolently on the family circle, and looking a hundred welcomes to the strangers.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Billionaires, based on the seven-person sample I've had the chance to observe, tend to be either superpolite and ostentatiously respectful or the reverse.
The Age of Murdoch
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The back drawing-room has never produced a company of comedians so intensely and ostentatiously conscious of their own funniness.
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The former London mayor was ostentatiously not making a genuine historical point about prewar Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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I even quite like the ostentatiously distressed trestles and folding chairs they use outside, and the formulaic battered club chairs in the window.
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Coats were dirty, with patches that looked suspiciously like mange; hocks were poulticed, and looked swollen; several of the wise old mares were ostentatiously practicing their limps, and there wasn't a hide of an attractive color among them.
Fiddler Fair
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He argues that a ruler who wishes to avoid a reputation for parsimony will find that he needs to spend lavishly and ostentatiously.
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The Atlantic and Pacific coasts are being ostentatiously patrolled by large and reassuring Navy vessels.
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She pounces on an empty seat and gestures ostentatiously to me that the one opposite is free.
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They are ostentatiously nonchalant, disinclined to become too involved, at least to begin with.
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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Those modern Jews were voluble to disavow all sympathy with the murderous deeds of their progenitors, who had martyred the prophets, and ostentatiously averred that if they had lived in the times of those martyrdoms they would have been no participators therein, yet by such avouchment they proclaimed themselves the offspring of those who had shed innocent blood.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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In the opening stages of the series, O'Connor sought to demonstrate his peerless courage and wit by ostentatiously haranguing the children and housewives who appeared before him for their musical shortcomings.
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And Mr. Hinks, having displayed a freckled fist of extraordinary size and pugginess in an ostentatiously familiar manner to Mr. Polly's close inspection by sight and smell, turned it about this way and that and shaken it gently for a moment or so, replaced it carefully in his pocket as if for future use, receded slowly and watchfully for a pace, and then turned away as if to other matters, and ceased to be even in outward seeming a friend ....
The History of Mr. Polly
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Brides still wear ostentatiously royal gowns that cannot be used again for any other function.
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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The almost ostentatiously mingy tax cuts, and the general theme of not Jam Tomorrow, but Jam the Day After Tomorrow, If You're All Very Good, seem to have played right into the Opposition's hands.
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Her servants were similarly, if less ostentatiously attired.
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I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property, — much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.
Great Expectations
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The almost ostentatiously mingy tax cuts seem to have played right into the Opposition's hands.
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Octavian went ahead with his triumph, when the procession through Rome bore an image of Cleopatra with a snake ostentatiously clamped to her arm.
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The actor Steve McQueen was notorious for stealing scenes in which he had no dialogue by ostentatiously fiddling with the brim of his Stetson or adjusting his neckerchief.
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On other occasions - the encounters of the Giant and his mother spring to mind - the simplicity is both very effective and unostentatiously moving.
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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For about a year, until I lost it putting out the trash, I had an expensive Hamilton watch that I wore on expeditions uptown, sliding it ostentatiously as far down wrist as it would go.
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White candidates had to pay attention to them, either seeking their support in order to create biracial coalitions, or ostentatiously snubbing them in an effort to solidify the white vote.
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Despite their wealth they chose not to live ostentatiously.
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He leaned over towards her, and Lizzy started coughing ostentatiously when the cigar smoke floated in her direction.
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‘You know that Barry will be unostentatiously successful in anything he's involved in,’ said one business source.
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During the House debate on the Ten's contempt citations, Rankin ostentatiously unfurled a CFA petition in support of the Ten and began to read, a performance intended to raise once more the specter of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy in Hollywood and to warn the recalcitrant CFA members that they could be tarred with the same Red brush as the Ten:
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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The former London mayor was ostentatiously not making a genuine historical point about prewar Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, muffs of fox were carried ostentatiously by followers of Charles James Fox.
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One story goes that every time Yul Brynner - who as the nominal star was always in the centre of the shot - opened his mouth, McQueen, in the background, would fiddle ostentatiously with his hat.
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Rooms are handsomely but not ostentatiously furnished, and all have king-size beds, fireplaces, and decks that overlook the lake.
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Here, on the terrace where I sit, and where ladies in needlessly costly robes are promenading up and down to exhibit their superfluous wealth ostentatiously to one another, my ear is continuously assailed by the constant _ping, ping, ping_ of the pigeon-shooting, and my peace disturbed by the flapping death-agonies of those miserable victims.
Post-Prandial Philosophy
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Ross McMullin's short biography works, like Watson himself, both unostentatiously and effectively to achieve results.
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Poor folk, even slaves, began to dress ostentatiously.
A Renegade History of the United States
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And meantime he had to face another two hours or so of Gori's being ostentatiously repentant.
PROSECUTOR
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Not to speak of the unostentatiously low-key, delimiting, and cool-filtered cinematography by Leigh's usual cameraman, Dick Pope.
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And meantime he had to face another two hours or so of Gori's being ostentatiously repentant.
PROSECUTOR
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Its columns are tall and slender, its capitals have bountiful acanthus leaves with big scrolls and its entablature sports an ostentatiously sculpted frieze and cornice.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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He was esteemed by his neighbours and unostentatiously prosperous.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Something to do with my ostentatiously wearing shoe leather in her company and telling her that vegetables have families too.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Government was in office, with Lord Randolph Churchill as its leader in the House of Commons; and one of the first acts of the new leader was to separate himself ostentatiously from the Irish policy of Lord Spencer and from the policy of coercion in general.
Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question
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Yu's work ostentatiously references film strips - suggesting sequentiality, narrative and subjectivity through contiguity, rhythm and fragmentation.
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He sat down in the spot Sophia had just vacated on the bed, laying his glistening sword ostentatiously across his lap.
The Saracen: The Holy War
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He hissed when Galloway spoke, of course, cheered ostentatiously when King spoke, and generally made himself ridiculous.
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It is he, not the Prime Minister, who must court attention ostentatiously.
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It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came ....
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
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That was why the father, arriving from Berlin, had on his own initiative brought them an English governess; for the English are admitted by their continental friends to excel in this special branch of manners, while their continental enemies charge them with being "ostentatiously" well groomed and dainty.
Home Life in Germany
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Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly
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Yet Raphael, eschewing mystery, signed his name ostentatiously on his courtesan's arm band, left her undressed, and gave her face a knowing expression.
This Beauty Still Beguiles
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Its columns are tall and slender, its capitals have bountiful acanthus leaves with big scrolls and its entablature sports an ostentatiously sculpted frieze and cornice.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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He doesn't attempt the stammer, the dandyish manner, the cigarette ostentatiously clamped between the middle fingers.
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The butt of his humour is a group so ostentatiously righteous that few commentating on the Booker mentioned Jacobson's attack.
Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts
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Heavy, polluting industry made Glasgow ostentatiously wealthy but left tens of thousands of its citizens scrabbling for survival.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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The room was ostentatiously decorated in white and silver.
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Harry stopped under a street lamp and ostentatiously began inspecting the contents of his bag.
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I don't wish to influence others, but it jars upon me to have my name ostentatiously paraded in the public prints.
Luke Walton
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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Heavy, polluting industry made Glasgow ostentatiously wealthy but left tens of thousands of its citizens scrabbling for survival.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I was surprised by the traditional mode of narration; the prose is conventional, unsurprising, not ostentatiously poetic.
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The playwrights who wrote for the public stage depicted characters who demonstrated a fetishistic preoccupation with clothes and who dressed ostentatiously.
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Today some of their most visible representatives have become ostentatiously rich, and some even preach a gospel of wealth.
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The ex-second of the organization is already ostentatiously isolated, and the chairman of the party entered power with younger cadres from the movement.
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Cecilia then left the rooms secretly vowing that no possible exigence should in future tempt her to apply for assistance to Mr Delvile, which, however ostentatiously offered, was constantly withheld when claimed.
Cecilia
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During the press conference, Buffett took a bag of peanut brittle from Munger -- saying "I'll get that Charlie" -- and ostentatiously gnawed it open with his teeth.
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At Delhi, the gates of the city walls are called ostentatiously after distant places -- the _Kashmîr_, the _Kâbul_, the _Constantinople_ gates.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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Nigel was ostentatiously smoking a big cigar to give an illusion of poise.
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An unostentatiously devout man, that is where he would, in different circumstances, undoubtedly have been.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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The characters are ostentatiously quirky, the humour is arch, yet the soft centre within the brittle candy coating is gooey with sentiment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harry stopped under a street lamp and ostentatiously began inspecting the contents of his bag.
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They seem to be superior in appearances also, for some of the animals display brightly coloured plume-like tentacles, long and capable of being ostentatiously fluttered.
My Tropic Isle
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A couple of mobile phones lay ostentatiously on the table; beside them was a shiny brochure.
THE EXECUTION
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They aren't noticeably brave or ostentatiously high-minded.
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If we ostentatiously display our Rolex watch, should we be held responsible when it is ripped from our wrist?
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There will probably be a spin-off for the Tories in all this: watch the BBC galloping to the centre as the election draws near and carefully (and probably ostentatiously as it no longer does ‘subtle’ very much) making sure that an veneer of impartiality is smeared over the whole which will last until about five minutes after the Tories win.
Archive 2008-03-30
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Penn is convulsed with ostentatiously felt emotion.
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Ostentatiously, a person's income dictates his ‘taste’, which is popularly associated with his dress, the restaurants he frequents, and the people he associates with.
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One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of repressive, patriarchal social conditioning.