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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An outing in Blue - a "pretentious, self-conscious, literary Western without much zest", according to one critic - didn't help.

From BBC

“That idea feels a little pretentious to me.”

From Los Angeles Times

“There’s this appetite for accessible luxury — something indulgent, but not pretentious. One perfect spoonful, then onto the next.”

From Salon

There have always been those who found the place, with its pretentious airs, dilatory pacing and stultifying rules of order, a frustrating environment to work in, much less thrive.

From Los Angeles Times

Everyone at the party wants to be in Mary’s orbit because she’s magnanimous, not pretentious.

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