ostentatiously

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os·ten·ta·tious

(ŏs′tĕn-tā′shəs, -tən-)

adj.

Characterized by or given to ostentation. See Synonyms at showy.

os′ten·ta′tious·ly adv.

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Adv.

ostentatiously - with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly"

showily

Translations

بِتَظاهُر، بِتَباهٍ

protzig

ostensiblement

hivalkodóan

meî sÿndarmennsku

okázale

gösterişle

卖弄地

ostentatiously

[ˌɒstenˈteɪʃəslɪ] ADV → ostentosamente, con ostentación

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ostentatiously

[ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsli] adv

(= showily) → avec ostentation

(= in an exaggerated way) → ostensiblement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ostentatiously

adv

(= pretentiously) → pompös, protzig (inf); live → pompös, in Pomp, auf großem Fuße

(= conspicuously) → ostentativ, betont auffällig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ostentatiously

[ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəslɪ] adv → con ostentazione

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ostentatious

(ostenˈteiʃəs) adjective

behaving, done etc in such a way as to be seen by other people and to impress them. Their style of living is very ostentatious.

ˌostenˈtation noun

ˌostenˈtatiousness noun

ˌostenˈtatiously adverb

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To this gentleman, Stubb was now politely introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put on the aspect of interpreting between them.

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They cordially hated them; but the impulses of their resentment were neutralized by their dread of the floating batteries, which lay with their fatal tubes ostentatiously pointed, not at fortifications and redoubts, but at a handful of bamboo sheds, sheltered in a grove of cocoanuts!

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A shopkeeper with red pimples on his cheeks near the nose, and a calm, persistent, calculating expression on his plump face, hurriedly and ostentatiously approached the officer, swinging his arms.

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The crowd fell apart, now, and the Sheriff came through, ostentatiously leading Potter by the arm.

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She made way for him by pushing back her chair, and promptly, and a little ostentatiously, with the desire that the whole house should see what he was doing, Archer seated himself at the Countess Olenska's side.

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Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy.

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Those banks of beautiful ladies, shining in their barbaric splendors, would see a knight sprawl from his horse in the lists with a lance- shaft the thickness of your ankle clean through him and the blood spouting, and instead of fainting they would clap their hands and crowd each other for a better view; only sometimes one would dive into her handkerchief, and look ostentatiously broken-hearted, and then you could lay two to one that there was a scandal there somewhere and she was afraid the public hadn't found it out.

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"That's what I think," declared Mohcharmin, unfolding a newspaper and ostentatiously studying its contents.

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Henri so ostentatiously recommended to me by the directress.

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A solution seemed in sight, and even Cecil, who had been ostentatiously drinking his tea at the view, felt the eternal attraction of Chance, and turned round.

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In a semi-comatose state he conducted her on board an up-town car, ostentatiously paid her fare, leered kindly at her through the rear window and fell off the steps.

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Jo.'s gladness, which somehow did not impress me, was duly and ostentatiously celebrated at the bottle.