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pretentious
adjective as in snobbish, conceited
Strong match
Weak matches
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
Example Sentences
Ms. King seeds her love story with engaging dialogue and literary references that are never pretentious or gratuitous.
“It’s a little pretentious to think that you’re only making a film for you,” he notes.
An outing in Blue - a "pretentious, self-conscious, literary Western without much zest", according to one critic - didn't help.
“That idea feels a little pretentious to me.”
“There’s this appetite for accessible luxury — something indulgent, but not pretentious. One perfect spoonful, then onto the next.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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