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How to use conspicuous consumption in a sentence

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Equating conspicuous consumption with hospitality, Beverly pours endless drinks down everyone's throats.
Stylish Mike doesn't like it if you suggest that his enthusiasms are all about ostentation and conspicuous consumption.
If this conspicuous consumption made people more contented, I would be less inclined to question it.
Society observers and media sources agree that conspicuous consumption has exploded in the past decade.
In the past bringing in a professional would have been seen as a luxury or a form of conspicuous consumption.
In Thailand, a cappuccino costs the equivalent of three bowls of noodles, enhancing its potential for conspicuous consumption.
Academic and corporate titles are seldom used, and conspicuous consumption is condemned.
It is all conspicuous consumption of premium champagne, BMWs and surface flash.
They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth.
Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge.
Typically these outlanders are lampooned for their conspicuous consumption and lack of community commitment.
The disaster occurred at a time of year when we have just wallowed in a shameful orgy of over-indulgence and conspicuous consumption.
Legislators have penalized certain forms of conspicuous consumption by imposing luxury taxes on expensive cars, yachts, and other items.
The return of florals and chintz is also a reflection of a new opulence and conspicuous consumption in interiors.
In nearly all, it is a symbol of status expressing itself in conspicuous consumption or possession of prestigious things.
The affair probably dates back to the hedonistic days, of the late Eighties and early Nineties when conspicuous consumption was the order of the day.
Mogul Style is less about conspicuous consumption than contemptuous consumption.
The affluence of ordinary consumers manifested itself in a growing market for luxury items, conspicuous consumption, and very short product cycles.
Don't celebrate the fact that you're like everyone else, with your SUVs that never go off-road, your all-star kids and your conspicuous consumption.
The roots of hip hop's infatuation with expensive, outrageous and overtly customised motor vehicles lie in ghetto fabulous, the trend for conspicuous consumption.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The need of vicarious leisure, or conspicuous consumption of service, is a dominant incentive to the keeping of servants.
High-bred manners and ways of living are items of conformity to the norm of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption.
This isn't the old-time expanding economy based on obsolescence and conspicuous consumption.
No class of society, not even the most abjectly poor, forgoes all customary conspicuous consumption.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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