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Definition of Ostentatiously
1. Adverb. With ostentation; in an ostentatious manner. "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly"
Definition of Ostentatiously
1. Adverb. In an ostentatious manner; extravagantly or flamboyantly. ¹
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Definition of Ostentatiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostentatiously
Literary usage of Ostentatiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To set ostentatiously to view. You've shew how much you ray content They are all
couched in a pit, with obscured lights; which, at the vary instant of pur ..."
2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"... nor do I wish to appear ostentatiously disinterested (for more than probably
my refusal would be ascribed to this motive), nor that the country should ..."
3. War in Disguise, Or, The Frauds of the Neutral Flags by James Stephen (1806)
"... is of a nature far more formidable than that which he ostentatiously displayed.
The flotilla at Boulogne, and the army of the coast, have chiefly ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... than with that of relieving the condition of the unfortunate being who writhes
beneath the torture which is so coolly and ostentatiously inflicted. ..."
5. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1864)
"At Toledo, which was then the capital of Spain, the power of the clergy was
immense, and was so ostentatiously displayed, that in a council they held there ..."
6. American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most by Frank Moore (1857)
"But he did not do it ostentatiously. He never let his left hand know what his
right hand did. Still less did he ever impose upon the left hands of others, ..."
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