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21ostentation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Pretentious display Nouns 1. ostentation, ostentatiousness, display, show, flourish, parade; pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, glitter, strut; bombast, pomposity (see boasting); tinsel,… …
22Captain George Mainwaring — Dad s Army character name=Captain George Mainwaring affiliation=Home Guard occupation=Bank Manager start=The Man and the Hour finish=Never Too Old portrayer=Arthur LoweCaptain George Mainwaring (pronounced Mannering ) is a fictional bank manager… …
23Borge, Victor — orig. Borge Rosenbaum born Jan. 3, 1909, Copenhagen, Den. died Dec. 23, 2000, Greenwich, Conn., U.S. Danish born U.S. comedian and pianist. He studied at the Copenhagen Music Conservatory and later in Vienna and Berlin. Initially performing as a… …
24Régence style — French style in the decorative arts that developed с 1710–1730, when Philippe II, duc d Orléans, was regent of France. It marks the transition from the massive rectilinear forms of furniture in the Louis XIV style to the Rococo forms of Louis XV… …
25arrogance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. haughtiness, self importance; insolence, presumptuousness. See severity, vanity.Ant., modesty, humility. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pride, self importance, presumption, hauteur (French), disdain, hubris …
26bombast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. boasting, braggadocio, grandiloquence, exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grandiloquence, rant, fustian, pomposity; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. grandiloquence, rodomontade,… …
27pomp — n 1. grandeur, splendor, brilliance, glory; dignity, gravity, weight, ponderousness, state, solemnity, ceremoniousness, ritual, rituality; magnificence, array, flourish, style, parade, procession, cavalcade; display, show, pageantry, ceremony,… …
28ostentatiousness — noun lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity • Syn: ↑ostentation, ↑pomposity, ↑pompousness, ↑pretentiousness, ↑puffiness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation • Der …
29pompousness — noun lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑ostentation, ↑ostentatiousness, ↑pomposity, ↑pretentiousness, ↑puffiness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation …
30pretentiousness — noun 1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity • Syn: ↑ostentation, ↑ostentatiousness, ↑pomposity, ↑pompousness, ↑puffiness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation …
