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pretentious

/pri'tɛnʃəs/

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adjective
intended to attract notice and impress others
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ostentatious flamboyant flaunty showy splashy
adjective
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar
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ostentatious tasteless
adjective
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
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"a pretentious country house" "a pretentious fraud" "a pretentious scholarly edition"

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hifalutin high-flown high-sounding highfalutin highfaluting hoity-toity inflated jumped-up la-di-da nouveau-riche overblown parvenu parvenue pompous pontifical portentous sententious sesquipedalian upstart arty arty-crafty grandiloquent grandiose artsy-craftsy

Opposite:

unpretentious

Examples of pretentious

"a pretentious country house"
"a pretentious fraud"
"a pretentious scholarly edition"