Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ostentatiously"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ostentatious \Os`ten*ta"tious\, a.
Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous;
pretentious; boastful.
Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.
--Dryden.
The ostentatious professions of many years. --Macaulay.
-- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Os`ten*ta"tious*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ostentatiously
adv : in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously
wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly"
[syn: {showily}, {with ostentation}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.