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ostentate

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒstənteɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeenostttStarts with OEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin ostentātus, perfect passive participle of ostentō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), intensive from ostendō. Doublet of ostent.

Used in a sentence

  • It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.
  • Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.

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