show-off
- n someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention
- The sentence was florid in an adolescent way Spitzer was always something of an intellectual show-off.
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- A modest, 2,100-acre summer retreat
There were Newport and Bar Harbor, of course, seaside vacation spots where wealthy Americans turned summer into a verb in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There they had their huge show-off houses, their carriages, and, later, their automobiles, their servants, and their clothes. They also were part of an active social circuit, partying from the beginning of the season to its exhausting ...
July 6, 2013 - Journal Inquirer