Translations for „ostentation“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

ostentation [ˌɒstenˈteɪʃən, Am ˌɑ:stən-] N no pl pej form

ostentation

ostentacja f

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English

This crazy ostentation is less about celebrating the dead than demonstrating each family's vanity.

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Though his fee starts at $85 for a process that uses varying curling irons and heat settings, there is a certain lack of ostentation to the results.

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He never married; and while genial and kindly in nature, he was strongly opposed to anything savoring of ostentation.

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Too many antidotes too much commonness, ostentation in that.

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The house has fine natural materials, he says, deliberately chosen to avoid ostentation.

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Without ostentation and with great singleness of purpose he devoted himself to the welfare of his regiment and the good of the service.

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A certain brand of ostentation?

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The first duty of the republican woman was to instill republican values in her children, and to avoid luxury and ostentation.

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Foreigners were received with open arms and without ostentation.

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This quality of his is evident in his deep mastery of neravals and lack of ostentation in ragam-tanam-pallavis.

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