(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”.
Outmoded
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(2) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(3) When theatre has come under attack as an outmoded form, Lepage has been cited as proof of its radical vitality.
(4) The author points out that remarkably little interest is focused on the possibility of a new model of residential care to replace the outmoded hospital.
(5) Data currently in the literature regarding the detectability of sites of lymphoma by 67Ga imaging should be regarded as representing the minimum that can be expected from the method, since all reported series are based on outmoded imaging techniques.
(6) Yet because they invariably present themselves as modernisers, those who resist or criticise their arguments risk being seen as traditionalists, stuck in old ways and outmoded thinking – a position that seldom promises rapid career advancement.
(7) The very funding mechanism of the licence fee – a tax on television sets – is beginning to look outmoded and shaky in the world of catch-up, the tablet and the smartphone.
(8) Despite these advances, office practice generally continues to function on an outmoded model and psychiatric resources remain inequitably distributed.
(9) Intraosseous infusion is an outmoded technique that is gaining new prominence in the field of emergency medicine.
(10) Critics of zoos have been given a prime opportunity to rehearse their view that such institutions – a throwback to the 19th century, which had a taste for both scientific classification and freak shows – are outmoded.
(11) The rewards and punishments model shown in the report is an outmoded approach and there’s nothing in there about properly dealing with the obvious issues of distress and breakdown in detention,” she said.
(12) "There's no basis to the argument that sleeper trains are outmoded per se," said blogger Jon Worth, who has launched a petition to save the Copenhagen night train.
(13) Suddenly the brothers' mix of pop and country was outmoded, even if their influence would be glaringly obvious in a Beatles song such as Please Please Me, closely modelled on Cathy's Clown.
(14) Because several case reports in the past ten years have demonstrated that the definition of "scarring alopecia" is ambiguous, the use of the traditional schema--scarring versus nonscarring--may well be outmoded.
(15) With this new invention, a flood of ancient, outmoded texts was released upon the public, and eager readers frequently were unaware that books they were being sold as new works were actually in some cases a thousand years old.
(16) First, Professor Baron argues that Dr. Relman's position that doctors should make such decisions is based upon an outmoded, paternalistic view of the doctor-patient relationship.
(17) But here's the real problem: the outmoded, cosy system of prosecution, which has regulators still bound by old handshake agreements.
(18) It is concluded that the concept of psychophysiologic or psychosomatic disorder is outmoded.
(19) In short, we dare not forget the simple truth put forth by Harold Dodds that "No, work is not an ethical duty imposed on us from without by a misguided and outmoded Puritan morality; it is a manifestation of man's deepest desire that the days of his life shall have significance."
(20) Hospitals' patterns of ancillary service use were examined to determine whether new technologies replace older, more outmoded technologies, and to explore the factors associated with adoption of newer services and abandonment of older services.