Results for ostentation

1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually
in a detractive sense.




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Barnumism
exhibit
garishness
outward show
rococo
acting
exhibition
gaudiness
overelaborateness
salience
affectation
exhibitionism
gilt
overelegance
saliency
appearance
exposition
gloss
overornamentation
seeming
arabesque
exposure
grandiloquence
parade
semblance
arrantness
facade
grandioseness
performance
sensationalism
attitudinizing
face
grandiosity
platitudinous ponderosity
sententiousness
baroque
fakery
high relief
playacting
sham
baroqueness
faking
high-flown diction
polysyllabic profundity
show
bedizenment
false air
humbug
pomposity
showiness
big talk
false front
humbuggery
pompous prolixity
showing
blatancy
false show
imposture
pompousness
simulacrum
bluff
falsity
inflatedness
pontification
simulation
bluffing
fanciness
inflation
pose
speciousness
boldness
feigning
lexiphanicism
posing
stiltedness
cheating
feint
loftiness
posture
strikingness
chinoiserie
fineness
luridness
presentation
strong relief
color
flagrance
luxuriance
presentment
swelling utterance
coloring
flagrancy
luxuriousness
pretense
swollen phrase
conspicuousness
flamboyance
magniloquence
pretension
swollenness
convolution
flashiness
masquerade
pretentiousness
tall talk
deception
flatulence
mere rhetoric
pretext
tortuosity
delusion
flatulency
meretriciousness
production
tortuousness
demonstration
flaunting
moresque
projection
tumidity
disguise
floridity
noticeability
prominence
tumidness
display
floridness
notoriety
pronouncedness
turgescence
dissemblance
flourish
notoriousness
prose run mad
turgidity
dissembling
floweriness
obtrusiveness
representation
unfolding
dissimulation
four-flushing
opening
retrospective
unfoldment
elaborateness
fraud
orotundity
rhetoric
unveiling
elegance
front
ostentatious complexity
rhetoricalness
varnish
enactment
fulsomeness
outstandingness
richness
varnishing day