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pretentious
[pri-ten-shuhs]
adjective
characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved.
a pretentious, self-important waiter.
Synonyms:making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
Synonyms:full of pretense or pretension; having no factual basis; false.
pretentious
/ ɪˈɛʃə /
adjective
making claim to distinction or importance, esp undeservedly
having or creating a deceptive outer appearance of great worth; ostentatious
Other 51Թ Forms
- pretentiously adverb
- pretentiousness noun
- ˈٱԳپdzܲ adverb
- ˈٱԳپdzܲԱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pretentious1
Example Sentences
Everyone at the party wants to be in Mary’s orbit because she’s magnanimous, not pretentious.
However hot a mess she may be, she isn’t pretentious; she has energy, boldness and consistency, and whatever she gets wrong, she lives in the world that most of us do.
But consider this: do you find mashed potatoes pretentious?
Cage doesn’t get a toe in the tide before he’s given the heave-ho by a pretentious group of quasi-spiritual surfers called the Bay Boys.
There might be a mythic air to places like San Francisco or its pretentious older sister city, Los Angeles.
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