Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I don't wish to influence others, but it jars upon me to have my name ostentatiously paraded in the public prints. ". From Wordnik.com. [Luke Walton] Reference
He sat down in the spot Sophia had just vacated on the bed, laying his glistening sword ostentatiously across his lap. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Henry has ostentatiously put them out on the sidewalk. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men : "The Summer Man" Is Clearing His Head] Reference
Emma held her handkerchief ostentatiously to her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
The girl was now shunned, ostentatiously, carefully shunned. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
She was not merely regardless of it, but ostentatiously disdainful. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Today's young are less ostentatiously moral than their predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [The Character Of Our Campuses] Reference
Claire enters softly, the paper ostentatiously displayed in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He could have made the same point without being so ostentatiously rude. From Wordnik.com. [Tigers And Kittens] Reference
The ostentatiously erudite Canadian magnate yearns for the days of heroism. From Wordnik.com. [Waterloo For A True Believer] Reference
"See, Alice," Katy struck an attitude with both hands spread out ostentatiously. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Two years ago Joe Biden (then senator) ostentatiously walked out of a dinner with him. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man in Afghanistan] Reference
The British could say it, and the Obama Administration could ostentatiously say nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Naiman: Can the U.S. Negotiate Peace in Afghanistan?] Reference
Lionella checked herself; she bit her lip, put her hands ostentatiously behind her back. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
But Russia, following Serbia's lead, has ostentatiously advertised its anger at the move. From Wordnik.com. [Playing Games With Kosovo] Reference
She walked decidedly across the room, and ostentatiously placed herself beside Mrs. Gunnison. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Now he can spend it in any direction -- wisely and beneficently, or foolishly and ostentatiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Larkins, who had risen, and ostentatiously assisted in brushing some of the dirt from his clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
I graduated with honors, of which I was secretly and my mother and Mr. Floyd ostentatiously proud. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The Marines had held five ostentatiously secret rehearsals for amphibious assaults during the fall. From Wordnik.com. [Blitzkrieg] Reference
Cardinal Piccolomini ostentatiously scattered the gold pieces over the altar before all the people. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
A year after the helicopter landed so ostentatiously in Robib, Sophieng realized she'd found her calling. From Wordnik.com. [A GLOBAL GAP] Reference
They e'en stopped at my door, "he went on ostentatiously," and called for a glass of wine for the princess. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Entering the courtroom on Monday, Ted ostentatiously turned his back on his brother, David, and his mother, Wanda. From Wordnik.com. [Suicide Mission] Reference
At last he shut the blade of the knife down ostentatiously, replaced it in his trousers 'pocket, and announced slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
It was not written in many volumes; his good deeds were not ostentatiously displayed, and he now sleeps peacefully and well. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
At the weekend, the U.S. ambassador made a highly unusual gesture of solidarity, ostentatiously visiting Yukos's headquarters. From Wordnik.com. [MOVING IN FOR THE KILL] Reference
That's still presuming we can somehow find leaders less ostentatiously corrupt, less flagrantly inept, and still pro-American. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Beinhart: Afghaninam, Vietnamistan] Reference
The White House is ostentatiously leaving Powell to lead the charge up Capitol Hill to sell the shift to skeptical Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [Walking Back Into A War] Reference
While we were all ostentatiously cool, I think there was not one among us but mentally computed just how long it would take for. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
While she applied her handkerchief ostentatiously to her nose and wiped her eyes, the justice exchanged glances with the notary. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Worse, he writes, another female staffer who wore "" a very short skirt ... kept ostentatiously crossing and uncrossing her legs. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Colliding Cultures] Reference
One audience member made his distaste particularly clear by ostentatiously reading a novel, humming, and then leaving before the end. From Wordnik.com. [Theatre tickets? Will that be stalls, circle or centre stage?] Reference
Paracelsus was a very prince among quacks, for probably no man ever talked more loudly and ostentatiously or made vainer pretensions. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He spoke loudly and, I thought, a bit ostentatiously, yet withal in a manner so frank and hearty that I could not help liking the fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
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