pretentious

adjective as in snobbish, conceited

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arty, exaggerated, grandiose, hollow, overblown, pompous, showy, stilted, turgid

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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

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At first, the girls are only in danger of being forced to listen to one man’s extremely pretentious opinions about religion, philosophy, culture and, yes, pop music, which is terrifying in itself.

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And so I always tried to get, like, very pretentious wine talk into the show, and that never made the cut.

From Salon

It can come off a little pretentious, with its Roman numeral “chapter” titles, nervous zoom shots and ponderous voice-overs.

From Los Angeles Times

The city is not as snooty and pretentious as San Francisco.

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In his review, the BBC's Nicholas Barber called it a "pretentious, portentous curio", akin to someone recalling a "crazy dream".

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