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pretentious
adjective as in snobbish, conceited
Strong match
Weak matches
affected, assuming, aureate, big, bombastic, chichi, conspicuous, euphuistic, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, overambitious, puffed up, put on, rhetorical, specious, splashy, swank, too-too, tumid, utopian, vainglorious
Example Sentences
The writing is muddled at times by a certain narrative slippage wherein one cannot tell whether the biting observations about clueless classmates and pretentious doctors come from Alice or Mr. deBoer.
Ms. King seeds her love story with engaging dialogue and literary references that are never pretentious or gratuitous.
“It’s a little pretentious to think that you’re only making a film for you,” he notes.
An outing in Blue - a "pretentious, self-conscious, literary Western without much zest", according to one critic - didn't help.
“That idea feels a little pretentious to me.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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