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show-offs

  • plural
    of show-off.
    show-off
    noun
    a person given to pretentious display.

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In May, state-controlled newspaper Global Times reported that an internet celebrity called Wanghongquanxing was banned from social media "amid a crackdown on online wealth show-offs."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024

Big subjects can turn even well-intended filmmakers into show-offs, to the point that they upstage the history they seek to do justice to.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

But the show-offs want to scoop it up and run the fumble into the end zone.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2019

That doesn’t mean it’s an album for show-offs.

From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2016

But Jule couldn’t stand a day at the pool with those high school boys, lumpish little show-offs.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart