display
verb (used with object)
to show or exhibit; make visible.
self-display
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a word derived from
display.
Example Sentences
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“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
At 20, she wore her hair in a mullet and dressed "in neon that hugs in all the wrong places," turning her awkwardness and misery into self-display, and then that self-display into art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
Sedgwick, like Plimpton, was both tempted by fame and plunged into all the excitement and self-display available in the media world.
From Salon ● May 28, 2013
The layout, Mr. Susser explained during a tour of the place, is designed to allow for both privacy and self-display.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2011
All this rather long and verbose article was written solely with the object of self-display.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
