2 QUOTES WITH «OSTENTATIOUSLY»
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ostentatiously.
Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OSTENTATIOUSLY»
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Cloth, this is to be seen on too many of our Communion Tables to be considered
objectionable. I do not approve of crosses being ostentatiously intro duced where
they have never before been ; but I should as soon object to the Cross on St.
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Dictionary of Confusable Words
162 OSTENSIBLY ostensibly see ostentatiously ostentatiously/ostensibly To do
something ostentatiously is to do it openly or pointedly, so that those present see
it being done: 'Janet disliked cigarette smoke, and ostentatiously opened the ...
1 do not approve of crosses being ostentatiously introduced where they have
never before been ; but I should as soon object to the Cross on St. Paul's
Cathedral as to its use on the Cloth used to cover the Communion Table, which is
no ...
Ecclesiological society, 1851
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The Parliamentary Debates (official Report[s]) ...
Leaving the words in that form the Government would not thus have been
ostentatiously putting forward a new ... the mind of the reciient of the money
would not detect urking in it the principle that was now brought forward so
ostentatiously.
Great Britain. Parliament, 1870
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The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition)
... and ostentatiously. Per aps the noble Earl will tell me that no steps have been
taken to punish the violation of the law, because no proof of its violation could be
obtained. Now, that places the Government in this dilemma, either that the law is
...
Great Britain. Parliament, William Cobbett, 1852
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A new dictionary of the English language
-er. To set or fix a price ; to rate or estimate the value. Fr. Priser; D. Priiten; Ger.
Preiien. Ap- PRANCE, o. -ino. To move proudly, ostentatiously, gaily, gallantly ; to
bound or spring as a mettlesome horse. G. Douglas writes, " Turnus pransand on
...
... adverb disapproving The room was ostentatiously decorated in white and
silver. * He took out his gold watch and laid it ostentatiously (= very obviously so
everyone would notice) on the table in front of him. osteoarthritis /%Qs.ti.
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Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the ...
Moreover, the barracão they enter is ostentatiously empty and dark, in a clear
attempt not to give away any image of religious practice to the eye of the camera.
What we do get to see are images taken from documentaries on nature (erupting
...
Mattijs van de Port, 2011
See that it's done ostentatiously." Lamphorn stared. "Ostentatiously, sir?" "Yes,
ostentatiously. Clean out your ears, Mr Lamphorn, and you won't need to repeat
my orders back at me. Send Perrin, he's still too damn fat, send him round all
guns ...
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Amharic-English dictionary: H - N.
matad griddle (us. a disc of metal or pottery on which angara-bread is baked) (
see "]£) ' ^H^f to be busy baking PffhA • pottery griddle f -fl^* 1 9°"]^ iron griddle *<
w»m£+ - '^,«»D'^£«f, tamataddaqa to be or become ostentatiously pious, pretend
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OSTENTATIOUSLY»
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ostentatiously is used in the context of the following news items.
Hiroshima: 70 Years Of Lies And Propaganda
... that “American statesmen were eager for their country to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip.”. «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
His disco-era temple of fashion changed retail
... to whom Fiorucci rented concessions, and the painters Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, whose works were ostentatiously displayed. «Bend Bulletin, Jul 15»
Over 70 tractors and other agricultural machinery make …
Plovdiv. Over 70 tractors and other agricultural machinery make ostentatiously fuel refill at the filling station located at the entrance of the village ... «Focus News, Jul 15»
Cicero's holiday villa on verge of collapse
Cicero's Villa was once a large and ostentatiously decorated seaside retreat for the famous consul and orator. Situated on a five-acre site in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Murder in the Quiet Car
The person answers, in either normal or ostentatiously hushed tones. “I'm on the train,” the conversation begins. Everyone's attention is ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
Sunanda K Datta-Ray: The prohibition paradox
Prohibition politics ignore both the killer brews that polish off Indians at one end of the social scale and the ostentatiously vulgar lifestyles that ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
The Only Issue in 2016: The Legacy of 1776
Then there is always the “fat man” — an ostentatiously rich aesthete whose mystic skill lies in turning as many people into jobless, homeless ... «Dissident Voice, Jul 15»
Titus Andronicus: The Most Lamentable Tragedy review – sprawling …
... II” and a concluding 30 seconds of ambient drone ostentatiously entitled A Moral. Frankly, it makes Titus Andronicus' earlier concept album, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
The echo chamber of social media is luring the left into cosy …
They'd be changing their avatar to a rainbow flag, or ostentatiously sharing the touching story of a girl who needs a new wheelchair but can't ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
The long read: why the Greek crisis has revived a pantheon of toiling …
... statue of the river god Ilissos to the Hermitage in St Petersburg, Antonis Samaras, the then Greek prime minister, was ostentatiously livid. «The National, Jul 15»
