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1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. vi. 100 Neither was the kind, and over-indulgent Husband, backward in spreading ostentatiously, his glory, that he should at last be called Father.

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xi. 9 I thought it an abuse to Humane Shape..to behave themselves so Ostentatiously Foolish.

1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients xiv. 74 You do nothing ostentatiously.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xxxvi. 332 The wealth of two empires was ostentatiously displayed.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. x. 223 Anne could not draw on Charles's brain for..an explanation of some smiling hints of particular business, which had been ostentatiously dropped by Mary. View more context for this quotation

1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 83 The prejudices of a white aristocracy, ostentatiously boastful of its love of equality.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 57 When you go outside Clarence you come across the Bubi ostentatiously unclothed—I say ostentatiously for the benefit of ethnologists.

1908 E. F. Benson Climber 110 When her coffee came in, she announced she was much, much better, and soon after went ostentatiously out of the house.

1958 L. A. G. Strong Treason in Egg iii. 59 During the coffee break, Carstairs had ostentatiously kept on the far side of the room from Ellis.

1989 I. Murdoch Message to Planet i. 56 Her clothes were ostentatiously dowdy and messy, her skirt lop-sided.