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Despite her privileged background, "there is no ostentatiousness," said Mr Walker, who last saw Ms Murty joining in with a Christmas carol service.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2022

“The archbishop was very clear on his wishes for his funeral. He wanted no ostentatiousness or lavish spending,” the Tutu trust said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2021

There is also an element of pragmatism in our shunning of martial ostentatiousness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

It has been his pride and his palace, a soaring black skyscraper overlooking Manhattan that seemed to match Donald J. Trump’s ambition and ostentatiousness.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2016

In no country have fashion and ostentatiousness taken such strong possession of the masses, and the willingness to be satisfied with a moderate income is therefore nowhere so little at home.

From Psychology and Social Sanity by Münsterberg, Hugo