Usage examples (27)

• Whatever is done without ostentation and without the people being the witnesses of it, is, in my opinion most praise worthy.
• As for the painters who commanded these extraordinary prices, they rivalled each other in ostentation and vanity.
• Another simile comes to mind when thinking about the comparison: The haiku were slim, efficient tidy bodies — healthy, lacking in ostentation and self-assured about...
• You'll see a painted winder there which that 'Umpage got put up to his aunt -- that's his ostentation, that is.