Crossword-Solution: OSTENTATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ostentation | n. | The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. |
| Ostentation | n. | A show or spectacle. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “OSTENTATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | 1 answer |
| Gaudy display | 2 answers |
| flagrancy | 4 answers |
| Showiness | 5 answers |
| Showy display | 8 answers |
| pretentiousness | 10 answers |
| frippery | 22 answers |
| pageantry | 25 answers |
| frontage | 25 answers |
| high mightiness | 28 answers |
| finery | 32 answers |
| Pomp | 32 answers |
| splendour | 34 answers |
| Boast | 40 answers |
| Eclat | 41 answers |
| Braggadocio | 44 answers |
| impressiveness | 44 answers |
| Glitter | 45 answers |
| Parade | 54 answers |
| Demonstration | 56 answers |
| blaze | 57 answers |
| Adornment | 59 answers |
| pomposity | 69 answers |
| Affectation | 72 answers |
| promotion | 74 answers |
| COVERING ___ | 75 answers |
| doings | 75 answers |
| Display | 77 answers |
| guise | 77 answers |
| Front | 78 answers |
| Exhibition | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with OSTENTATION (5)
Then, when first she heard of this band of young English enthusiasts, who, for sheer love of their fellow-men, dragged women and children, old and young men, from a horrible death, her heart had glowed with pride for them, and now, as Chauvelin spoke, her very soul went out to the gallant and mysterious leader of the reckless little band, who risked his life daily, who gave it freely and without ostentation, for the sake of humanity.
She had passed beyond the phase of well-bred reciprocity, in which every demonstration must be scrupulously proportioned to the emotion it elicits, and generosity of feeling is the only ostentation condemned.
And it should be in no wise for show--the gross ostentation of the unlettered parvenu--but a genuine library, which should minister to his own individual culture.
Roland’s dying exclamation and cry, “Hospitality! hospitility! what crimes are committed in thy name!” Entertaining is for many people but an excuse for ostentation.
All the world imagine they will be exceptional when they grow wealthy; but possession is debasing, new desires spring up; and the silly taste for ostentation eats out the heart of pleasure.” “Then you might be better if you had less,” said the boy.
Quotes with OSTENTATION (3)
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
Joy is not the satisfied contemplation of an accomplished result, the emotion of victory, the satisfaction of having succeeded. It is the sign of an energy that is deftly deployed, it is a free affirmation: everything comes easy. Joy is an activity: executing with ease something difficult that has taken time to master, asserting the faculties of the mind and the body. Joys of thought when it finds and discovers, joys of the body when it achieves without effort. That is why jo…
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1972–2023).