How to use "ostentatious" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "ostentatious" in popular movie and book plots

  • Maya Malik is a 28-year-old single lonely Asian girl who wants an attractive husband and a grand ostentatious wedding.  - The A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriage
  • After taking out Mort, Bob gives Linda's bra to Gene and Louise who use it to take out the competition and climb a ladder to an ostentatious tree fort located on Fischoeder's grounds.  - The Oeder Games
  • Tired of the ostentatious splendour of the Indra’s court, she is filled with a quiet rapture at discovering the idyllic, rustic charm of this earthly setting.  - Rambaiyin Kaadhal (1956 film)
  • Together with ostentatious crew that is led by Tayaji (Satish Kaushik) and cousin Jassi (Suhail Nayyar), he indulges in uncontrolled consumption of cocaine.  - Udta Punjab
  • Thad Castle, recently drafted into the pros, is now an ostentatious multi-millionaire with high prospects as an NFL player.  - Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland
  • As they endure their loneliness and the turmoil of maturing, each encounters unique experiences and a lasting special relationship with their ostentatious and passionate new neighbor, Lucy Bell (Alexandra Smothers), a companion for hire.  - Desire Street (film)
  • The Comte de Gondreville hosts an ostentatious ball in his stately mansion.  - La Paix du ménage
  • Leading a life of ostentatious with his wife, Jane (Danielle Winits), he spends all the money in 15 years.  - Até que a Sorte nos Separe
  • As more ostentatious clues suddenly appear from nowhere, the film projector Michael has been using to watch some of the found film footage now reveals the gruesome death and funeral photos of Michael and Chris.  - Resolution (film)
  • Haney, now a wealthy mogul, arrives on the island with wife Rhonda (Kate Hudson) and begins building an ostentatious mansion on the site of "Blue Heron," the former Stumpo family home.  - Clear History
  • Mondo agrees and travels to David's moon palace on the dark side of the moon, though he is unable to kill the ostentatious and eccentric David despite a pitched battle.  - Killer Is Dead
  • Starting again with an ostentatious house (in comparison those of the few neighbors), they initially enjoy the taste of rural life.  - Post Tenebras Lux (film)
  • When one of them taunts another with having done poorly abroad, the other fellow claims that he has enough money from his jobs to paper the other fellow's ostentatious and expensive house.  - Crazy Days (film)
  • Now surrounded by young gay men of his own age, he learns to dress fashionably with ostentatious outfits.  - It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
  • Costello, however, considers the parliament to be a forum in which he can consolidate his power, citing famous speeches by Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln; the other members ruin this noble idea with their lack of discipline and ostentatious indifference.  - Hominid (novel)
  • However, Tala's own sense of duty and cultural restraint cause her to pull away from Leyla and fly back to Jordan where the preparations for an ostentatious wedding are well under way.  - I Can't Think Straight
  • However, while he is there with his friends, the moon is invaded by the Green Meanies, led by the ostentatious Trivert, who will stop at nothing to get the talisman of eternal life for themselves.  - The Secret of the Selenites
  • At Christopher's wake, Tony is disgusted by the ostentatious display of sorrow.  - Kennedy and Heidi
  • A grand success, Brady has ostentatious diamond jewelry designed for him, leading to his nickname, "Diamond Jim Brady".  - Diamond Jim
  • They eventually escape uninjured while Boyd plummets to his doom, signaled by an ostentatious explosion.  - Mojave Moon
  • In one of the most ostentatious scenes of the movie, Liszt then experiences a hallucination where the women of Princess Carolyn's court assail him but then become seduced by his music which strokes his libido and gives him a 10-foot erection.  - Lisztomania (film)
  • The guests are then invited to visit Trimalchio's tomb where he enacts his own death in an ostentatious ceremony.  - Fellini Satyricon
  • This corporation later includes a cart-and-oxen with which to deliver half-a-dozen menhirs at once, and an ostentatious costume.  - Obelix and Co.
  • He allows the less ostentatious Lee to act as a buffer between himself and those whose trust he needs to gain in order to obtain as much background information as possible.  - Infamous (film)
  • The aim, he tells Zadig, is that the hospitable man at the castle will learn not to be as ostentatious and vain, and the miser will learn how to treat guests.  - Zadig
  • The play is a comedy set at the home of the bride in Knoxville, Tennessee during the newly married couple's ostentatious wedding reception.  - Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
  • Hearing that Lester sent Halley white roses "round the clock, for days" while they were in London, Cliff is crestfallen as he realizes he is incapable of that kind of ostentatious display.  - Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Mr Kholi, a rich, crass, clumsy, and ostentatious Americanized relative, proposes to Lalita.  - Bride and Prejudice
  • Billy arranges for ostentatious flowers, chocolates, and other gifts to be delivered to Drew during the race to draw attention to her, making it impossible for the two hitmen sent by Berman to seize her without being noticed.  - Billy Bathgate
  • The Hillcrists are upset by the actions of mr Hornblower, whom they consider to be ostentatious and crass, in buying up land, evicting tenant farmers, and surrounding the area with factories.  - The Skin Game (1931 film)
  • He builds an ostentatious mansion and soon regrets it, as maintaining the new house proves to be a considerable drain on his time and money.  - Buddenbrooks
  • Sutpen obtains one hundred square miles of land from a local Native American tribe and immediately begins building a large plantation called Sutpen’s Hundred, including an ostentatious mansion.  - Absalom, Absalom!

Example sentences for "ostentatious" in interesting articles

  • He had a slightly smaller table and correspondingly less ostentatious demeanor.  - I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
  • Waskow, "of Belton, Texas." Such ostentatious geographical precision only calls attention to the genteel vagueness with which Pyle was content to depict the captain's wound and body. Brought down from a mountain by muleback, Captain Waskow's body was laid out on the ground at night and respectfully visited by officers and men of the company.  - The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)
  • Yet he lived in ostentatious poverty: he slept in the school kitchen and ate cocoa and oatmeal for dinner out of a pot he never cleaned.  - What Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School
  • Waskow, "of Belton, Texas." Such ostentatious geographical precision only calls attention to the genteel vagueness with which Pyle was content to depict the captain's wound and body. Brought down from a mountain by muleback, Captain Waskow's body was laid out on the ground at night and respectfully visited by officers and men of the company.  - The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)

Meaning of "ostentatious" in English

  • intended to attract notice and impress others
  • (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

Meaning of "ostentatious" in Hindi

  • डींग हांकने वाला ( Ding hankane vala, deeng haankane vaalaa, ding hankane wala)
  • आडम्बरी ( Aadambari, aadambaree)
  • दिखावे का ( Dikhave ka, dikhaave kaa, dikhawe ka)
  • दिखावटी ( Dikhavati, dikhaavatee, dikhawati)
  • भड़कीला ( Bhadakila, bhadakeelaa)
  • आडंबरपूर्ण ( Aadanbarapurn, aadanbarapoorn)

Synonyms of "ostentatious"

  • kitsch
  • pretentious

Antonyms of "ostentatious"

  • unostentatious
  • unpretending
  • unpretentious

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