Thesaurus / pretentious
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synonyms for pretentious
- arty
- exaggerated
- grandiose
- hollow
- overblown
- pompous
- showy
- stilted
- turgid
- ostentatious
- 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
See also synonyms for: pretentiously / pretentiousness
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No Words, the third Little Bridge Island book, follows Jo Wright, a successful children’s author, at a book festival where she just so happens to run into her arch nemesis Will Price, a pretentious adult novelist.
MEG CABOT WON’T GIVE UP ON HAPPY ENDINGSANNABEL GUTTERMANOCTOBER 7, 2021TIMEDespite his pretentious cynicism and disdain for his superficial classmates, Cameron is immediately dazzled on day two of the bet by Padgett’s karaoke performance of “Teenage Dream.”
‘HE’S ALL THAT’ PROVES ADDISON RAE AND KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN CAN’T ACTJORDAN JULIANAUGUST 27, 2021THE DAILY BEASTA 25-minute-long video from August last year promised the “Lifepaths” feature, a pretentious name for what ended up becoming 15-minute introductions that barely changed the game’s story in any meaningful way.
‘CYBERPUNK 2077,’ THREE MONTHS LATERGENE PARKMARCH 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIn the centre was a log-house, larger and more pretentious than many log-houses which he had seen in the South.
THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMESThe little inn was cleanlier and better kept than many of the more pretentious ones.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHYWith costers and bargemen one can always get on familiarly: it is the pretentious, vulgar men and females who are horrible.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANAn affected and pretentious woman is all deportment and words; a sensible woman shows her sense by her behaviour.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREThus an imitation of sagacity becomes pretentious affectation.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREThe house in which at that time they lived was a somewhat pretentious mansion on the water side of Crana Street.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHIf he be a little less than perfectly sincere he runs risk of being pretentious, fatuous even.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 147, NOVEMBER 4, 1914VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PRETENTIOUS
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraudulent
- gone Hollywood
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- la-di-da
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- aloof
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- biggety
- bossy
- bragging
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cocky
- cold-shoulder
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- domineering
- egotistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperious
- insolent
- know-it-all
- lordly
- on an ego trip
- overbearing
- peremptory
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- proud
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-important
- smarty
- smarty-pants
- smug
- sniffy
- snippy
- snooty
- snotty
- stuck up
- supercilious
- superior
- swaggering
- uppity
- vain
- arrogant
- big
- big-headed
- bombastic
- cocky
- conceited
- crowing
- egotistic
- egotistical
- exultant
- full of hot air
- highfalutin
- hot stuff
- know-it-all
- loudmouth
- on ego trip
- pompous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- self-aggrandizing
- self-applauding
- smart-alecky
- snooty
- strutting
- stuck-up
- swaggering
- swanky
- swollen-headed
- too big for one's britches
- vainglorious
- vaunting
- windbag
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