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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
“You know, your furniture sucks. It’s pretentious and looks like a middle school kid could’ve carved it.”
It still is, albeit pricier and more pretentious, if you ask those who grew up there.
I just came back—I sound so pretentious.
“It is pretentious,” she protested to her diary on Sept. 6, 1922.
A pretentious young critic for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma who never takes off his dark glasses, even at the movies, and rarely stops smoking, he is aching to make a feature of his own.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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