(n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
(n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
(n.) A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brandishing cash sweeteners so squarely directed at different age groups opens another fracture along generational lines.
(2) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
(3) Brandishing images of what Virgin "lounges" might look like – similar to a stark yet trendy hotel restaurant – Gadhia admits that her other motto for running the business is "wanting to make everyone better off".
(4) Jones, on the scene moments later, reached for his back pocket and brandished the red card.
(5) "How do you convince the world that you are open for business while brandishing nuclear weapons at the world's largest economy and kidnapping an octogenarian?"
(6) Islamist extremist Man Monis , brandishing a shotgun and claiming he was an Isis operative with explosives in his backpack, took 18 people hostage inside the Lindt cafe on the morning of 15 December 2014.
(7) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(8) A video that surfaced in the aftermath of the battle for Donetsk airport last month showed “Givi”, one of the rebel commanders, throwing Ukrainian prisoners into the mud, hitting them in the face, and brandishing a knife at them.
(9) On Saturday, a man in a white pickup truck brandished a gun and fired into the air during a confrontation with protesters.
(10) This article was amended on 9 June 2015 to reflect the fact the police officer pulled his gun on two other teenagers but brandished it at the girl.
(11) As Cleveland officials investigate a police shooting of a 12-year-old African American boy who was brandishing a fake gun at a Cleveland playground, one state lawmaker is calling for such toys to be specially marked.
(12) A photograph of Tarkeshwari Rathod brandishing the Indian flag on the summit – which was used by the Nepal Tourism Board to verify their claim – has also been questioned, with skeptics saying that the shadows suggest it was taken closer to noon.
(13) His appeal to the Labour party members tends to involve him brandishing his party card and affirming his loyalty to its motto: Putting power, wealth and opportunity into the hands of the many.
(14) to a megaphone-brandishing woman with the words "moralising slut" written across her chest (a reference to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who called Madonna a moralising "slut" when she expressed support for Pussy Riot).
(15) Lee Probert, the referee, brandished a straight red card following Sessègnon's second-half challenge on Yacouba Sylla at Villa Park as Sunderland succumbed to a damaging 6-1 defeat .
(16) It began at last month’s Democratic convention when Khan’s father, Khizr, excoriated Trump and asked, “Have you even read the United States constitution?” while brandishing a copy above his head.
(17) Khan's mother said she had been shocked at how different he seemed in the video, which is entitled There's No Life Without Jihad and shows Khan, Nasser Muthana and three other men brandishing guns as they implore others to join them fighting in Syria.
(18) Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.
(19) What we are actually seeing is the brandishing of powerlessness from our political class, the shrinking of their ability to think differently or even widely.
(20) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.
Ostentatious
Definition:
(a.) Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
(2) He was ostentatious in assembling a multi-faith support cast and pointed in his insistence on unity.
(3) The popular image of yakuza families as ostentatiously wealthy and loyal to the core bears little resemblance to Tendo's early experiences of poverty and betrayal.
(4) But BrewDog’s astonishing growth may raise the uncomfortable possibility that in an age of media-savvy and brand-sceptical digital natives, ostentatious displays of “authenticity” – known to some as acting like pretentious hipster douchebags – may have become a necessary condition for success.
(5) Eighteen months ago the group sprayed designs inspired by the British graffiti artist Banksy on walls of ostentatious new houses believed to have been built with the profits of the £3bn a year Afghan drug trade.
(6) Trump approves of working with autocrats, at least, and would probably make fast friends with the galaxy’s less reputable leaders – especially those who share his interests, eg crimelord Jabba the Hutt, who lives in an ostentatious palace , loves parties , demeans women and feeds a literal Rancor .
(7) Farage told LBC’s Nick Ferrari: “I think that given that some people feel very embarrassed by [breastfeeding], it isn’t too difficult to breastfeed a baby in a way that’s not openly ostentatious.” If the hotel asked a nursing mother to cover up, he said: “Frankly, that’s up to Claridge’s.
(8) The paper alleges: "It was well-known that corruption among politicians in the Turks and Caicos Islands was endemic and it was inherently unlikely that Mr Misick could have achieved such apparent wealth and pursued such an ostentatious lifestyle while being premier, without having being corrupt.
(9) The current South African president, Jacob Zuma , has also made ostentatious shows of reverence to "Madiba".
(10) The aide said Lebedev was unhappy about the ostentatious nature of the raid, and the use of masked men carrying serious guns.
(11) Forster sometimes thought that King's was a bit too ostentatious, and that its buildings had a tendency to say "look at me."
(12) It is comfortable without being ostentatious and with no concession to "designer living".
(13) The exhibition was put under a boycott by some German industrialists and the German pharmacists from Bohemia ostentatiously rejected any participation.
(14) At first glance, there is nothing overtly ostentatious about this quiet road, where the average property was last year valued at around £41m, more than 165 times the value of the average UK home (£248,863).
(15) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
(16) "Ostentatiously earnest but low on talent, horrible to watch, and pretty horrible to listen to as well."
(17) Tom Neenan and Nish Kumar's investigation into the fate of the written word may appear highbrow on the surface, what with its ostentatious musings on literature and aesthetics, but that's just a cover for an hour of engaging silliness, packed with inventive devices and satisfyingly funny gags.
(18) Overbearing, ostentatious, and incongruous, don't you think?"
(19) The club's website says it caters to the "nouveau riche" and invites guests to "slip on your diamante dancing shoes or designer suit and dance the night away at the most ostentatious venue in Joburg".
(20) Mikheil Saakashvili: 'Ukraine's government has no vision for reform' Read more Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of parliament, called Rasmussen’s appointment a “ostentatious show” with no “military or even practical purpose”.