ostentatious
adjective
characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others.
unostentatiously
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a word derived from
ostentatious.
Example Sentences
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At least one couple, Drohman related, were quietly wed with their ordained minister and witnesses unostentatiously seated at a table in the back room.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Sam has always been loyal and generous, neurotic and melodramatic, wickedly but unostentatiously smart, frank and funny and someone who makes the people around him feel funny, too, because he laughs frequently and hard.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2016
“Dark Star” reveals Giger’s bizarre home, filled with skulls, statues, books, paintings, gigantic watches and, unostentatiously on a bookshelf, his golden Academy Award statuette.
From Washington Times ● May 24, 2015
It helps that Thompson has all the skills the form requires—acuity of observation, unostentatiously lovely prose, familiarity with despair—and that, substantively speaking, he’s interrogating rather than indulging in nostalgia.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2014
All this had happened so swiftly and unostentatiously; the subscriptions were so munificent; the ladies so readily ordered a dress or a hat which they did not need that Eva was astounded.
From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus
