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adj. intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

arrogant, chesty, self-important

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

pretentious

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

flamboyant, aureate, showy, florid

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

elaborate, intricate

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

gaudy, flashy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

barbaric

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

camp, campy

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

indelicate

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

unostentatious, unpretentious

adj. not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance"

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