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Adjective: ostentatious  `ós-tun'tey-shus
  1. Intended to attract notice and impress others
    "an ostentatious sable coat"
    - pretentious, posey [Brit]
     
  2. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
    - pretentious, kitschy, kitsch

See also: flamboyant, flaunty, ostentation, ostentatiously, ostentatiousness, showy, splashy, tasteless

Antonym: unostentatious

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