 pretentious |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | |
| Examples: | "a pretentious country house" "a pretentious fraud" "a pretentious scholarly edition" |
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| Related terms: | unpretentious grandiloquent arty sententious grandiose artsy-craftsy nouveau-riche sesquipedalian high-flown jumped-up tasteless | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] of a display that is tawdry or vulgar | |
| Synonyms: | kitsch ostentatious | |
| Related terms: | tasteless | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] intended to attract notice and impress others | |
| Synonyms: | ostentatious | |
| Examples: | "an ostentatious sable coat" |
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| Related terms: | unostentatious showy conspicuous | |
| Similar spelling: |
pretentiously pretense prettiness pretension pretence pretender pretended |
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