Sentence:  All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar <WSD>displayed</WSD> his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion [...] such talk had been distressingly out of place. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.