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/ˈɒstənteɪt/ · verb
(transitive, rare) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly..
It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.
Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.
Use ostentate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ostentate means (transitive, rare) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly..
Common synonyms include ostent, exhibitionize, swagger, aura farm.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.
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