ostentate — ozdic

Collocations

4

ADJ.

bad

VERB + OSTENTATE

challenge, form

OSTENTATE + NOUN

beauty, one's, sickness

ADV.

unnecessarily

Definitions

verb

1

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.

2

To boast, show off.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — display proudly

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

2

01

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 propert

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02

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

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, ostentate is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.