| 释义 |
ostenˈtatiously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an ostentatious manner; in a way calculated to attract notice; with boastful parade or display.
1703J. Savage Lett. Antients xiv. 74 You do nothing ostentatiously. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. (1869) II. xxxvi. 332 The wealth of two empires was ostentatiously displayed. 1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 83 The prejudices of a white aristocracy, ostentatiously boastful of its love of equality. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 57 When you go outside Clarence you come across the Bubi ostentatiously unclothed—I say ostentatiously for the benefit of ethnologists. |