pretentious
Example Sentences
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“You know, your furniture sucks. It’s pretentious and looks like a middle school kid could’ve carved it.”
From Salon
It still is, albeit pricier and more pretentious, if you ask those who grew up there.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
