ostentate

To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.

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.

To boast, show off.