OSTENTATIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ostentatiously mean? 

• OSTENTATIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb OSTENTATIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner

  Familiarity information: OSTENTATIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTENTATIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With ostentation; in an ostentatious manner

Synonyms:

ostentatiously; showily

Context example:

Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly

Pertainym:

ostentatious (intended to attract notice and impress others)

 Context examples 

She was never, as I think I have said, ostentatiously affectionate, but she was heard by the coachman chatting with the Colonel in a friendly fashion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So much was pretty soon understood; but till Sir Walter and Elizabeth were walking Mary into the other drawing-room, and regaling themselves with her admiration, Anne could not draw upon Charles's brain for a regular history of their coming, or an explanation of some smiling hints of particular business, which had been ostentatiously dropped by Mary, as well as of some apparent confusion as to whom their party consisted of.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)