Ostentation is valid Scrabble Word

Is ostentation a scrabble word?
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is ostentation valid Words with Friends?
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11 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for OSTENTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

excessive display
the pretentious or showy display of wealth and luxury, designed to impress
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
A show or spectacle.
a gaudy outward display
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
pretentious or showy or vulgar display

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

excessive display; pretentiousness

Words related to OSTENTATION

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Words that contain OSTENTATION

ostentations12

How to use OSTENTATION in a sentence

He had chosen to build this country house, in which he received strangers with a generosity free from ostentation.
A third fault in his Sentiments, is an unnecessary Ostentation of Learning, which likewise occurs very frequently.
He had a profound aversion to any ostentation of religious fervor, as had my mother.
But nowadays their role seems to be a bold ostentation of their condition.
Of this kind of ostentation I very soon had a slight proof.
No man viewing them can continue blind to the independence of the American citizen, to the ostentation of his right of personal selection, to his individual caprice.
This careful avoidance of display marked his whole official career, running sometimes, indeed, into an ostentation of simplicity whose good taste might be questioned.
He lived in a style of pomp and ostentation far beyond that of the emperor himself.
Where taxes are high, and luxury great, there must be some persons who have a great deal of ostentation, even if they have little taste.
It is not confined to a company, and therefore the splendour and ostentation that, in the case of the Asiatic trade, occasion envy, do not exist in that to the American islands.

He developed a taste for entertaining as time went on and honors thickened upon him, and he mistook, like most of his guild, ostentation for hospitality.
The meanness of his occupations in solitude, was a just contrast to his exhibitions of public ostentation.
They believe the contrary of him who does not live with so much ostentation.
In this country, social ostentation is a great power to increase this separation of ranks, and the book of Jacob A.
They but illustrate the crazy ostentation of selfish wealth.
It was not ostentation but merit, that won him the supreme command.
On this account we are evil spoken of even among the Gentiles, as though we did all for display and ostentation.
Quietly, and without ostentation, troops were drafted into the island from the neighboring posts, until a formidable force had been gathered there.
The conduct of Jesus to the rich young man appears to me a melancholy exhibition of perverse doctrine, under an ostentation of superior wisdom.
The Man walking with that noble Animal, showed him, in the Ostentation of Human Superiority, a Sign of a Man killing a Lion.
Those words were simply a reproof of ostentation in worship.
He was dressed as usual with great neatness and care, though without ostentation.
Crook was a man who lived and fought without any ostentation, but who had high courage and used rare judgment.
Augustine at Manila, with the pomp and ostentation due to his person and offices.
They entered this bay with great ostentation and pomp on the first of March, the second day of the Easter festival.
There was very little ostentation in dress at the ball, but there was also very little taste in dressing.

Similar words containing OSTENTA without suffix tion

ostentations12 ostentatious12 ostentatiously17 unostentatious14 ostentatiousnes15 unostentatiousl15 ostentatiousness16 unostentatiously19 ostentatiousnesses18

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