Made a show of is an expression that describes a person who deliberately tries to draw attention to themselves or their actions. The antonyms for this phrase include actions that are discreet, subtle, and unobtrusive. One can choose to be understated, modest, or low-key in their actions instead of making a show of it. Examples include performing a task quietly, avoiding loud and extravagant behavior, and displaying a sense of humility. It is important to note that the antonyms for making a show of are often characteristics of people who do not seek attention but rather focus on the task at hand.

What are the antonyms for Made a show of?

• v.

  • seem
  • be real
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Famous quotes with Made a show of

• It was time to talk about choosing the plays and Grandmother Jia called on Bao-chai to begin. Bao-chai made a show of declining; but it was her birthday, and in the end she gave in and selected a piece about Monkey from . Grandmother Jia was pleased.

  Wu Cheng'en
• Democracy always seems bent upon killing the thing it theoretically loves. I have rehearsed some of its operations against liberty, the very cornerstone of its political metaphysic.But under democracy the remotest and most fantastic possibility is a common place of every day. All the axioms resolve themselves into thundering paradoxes, many amounting to downright contradictions in terms. The mob is competent to rule the rest of us—but it must be rigorously policed itself. There is a government, not of men, but of laws—but men are set upon benches to decide finally what the law is and may be. The highest function of the citizen is to serve the state—but the first assumption that meets him, when he essays to discharge it, is an assumption of his disingenuousness and dishonour.I confess, for my part, that it greatly delights me. I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Does it exalt dunderheads, cowards, trimmers, frauds, cads? Then the pain of seeing them go up is balanced and obliterated by the joy of seeing them come down.But I am, it may be, a somewhat malicious man: my sympathies, when it comes to suckers, tend to be coy. What I can't make out is how any man can believe in democracy who feels for and with them, and is pained when they are debauched and made a show of. How can any man be a democrat who is sincerely a democrat?

  H. L. Mencken

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