| 单词 | ostentatiously |
| 释义 | ostentatiously (once / 4112 pages) adv If you do something ostentatiously, you're doing it in a showy, flashy way: you're making a big to-do. Do you know people who are loud, over-the-top, and always walking into a room like they're a big deal? Well, they're acting ostentatiously and being ostentatious. That kind of behavior is usually considered obnoxious and pretentious, unless you're a king who has to wear gilded robes or a rock star who has to, well, behave like a rock star. Acting ostentatiously onstage might be necessary. But offstage, they're probably just attention hogs. WORD FAMILYostentatious: ostentatiously, ostentatiousness, unostentatious+/ostentate: ostentation/ostentation: ostentations, ostentatious/unostentatious: unostentatiously USAGE EXAMPLESThe Dhammakaya sect is controversial because it is ostentatiously wealthy and politically influential. Seattle Times(Nov 23, 2016) Asked in August how much this would cost, he replied, ostentatiously, that he would “at least double” Mrs Clinton’s numbers. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) Trump not only violated the embargo but also took ostentatiously hypocritical positions on it. The New Yorker(Oct 01, 2016) adv with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly Syn showily |
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