N-UNCOUNT 炫耀;夸示;卖弄 If you describe someone's behaviour as ostentation, you are criticizing them for doing or buying things in order to impress people. 炫耀;夸示;卖弄 [formal, disapproval]
Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s.
消费者摒弃了20世纪80年代铺张摆阔的陋习。
On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.