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ostentação

ostentation no pl

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He lived like a simple commoner without any ostentation and pride. en.wikipedia.org

There is often an expectation that they and their families will shun ostentation. en.wikipedia.org

All signs of ostentation have been suppressed here: there is no button work or adornments. en.wikipedia.org

Restrictions on the length, ostentation, expense of and behaviour during funerals and mourning were gradually placed by a variety of law-givers. en.wikipedia.org

Cautiousness and ardent passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed his nature; and, hence, his literary productions never attained artistic finish. en.wikipedia.org

Too many antidotes too much commonness, ostentation in that. en.wikipedia.org

Foreigners were received with open arms and without ostentation. en.wikipedia.org

This isn't pure ostentation; rather it's the only practical way of getting here. www.ft.com

Hating whatever smacked of ostentation; he lived his life of duty as he saw it with a cheerful optimism which belongs to one confident of the victory of righteousness. en.wikipedia.org

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

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