Synonyms:
ostentatious, pretentious
Meaning: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
Usage examples
He began by a burst of ostentatious charity.
He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation:
It was not ostentatious, but simply part and parcel of the man, due to his Presbyterian training.
He did not have the gas turned down low in a temporarily vacated room because he would save two cents by doing so, but because he justly regarded waste as wicked. His example in this particular, in a city so given to careless and ostentatious profusion as New York, was most useful.
Mike's work was less ostentatious, and was performed with pen, ink, and ledgers in the background. Occasionally, when Mr Waller was out at lunch, Mike had to act as substitute for him, and cash cheques; but Mr Waller always went out at a slack time, when few customers came in, and Mike seldom had any very startling sum to hand over.