Thesaurus / pretentious
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When I was taking business school classes, I felt like there were certain words for things that were—I don’t want to say pretentious—but intended to keep people out.
MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z INVESTED WHEN IT WAS FUN. NOW THEY'RE RIDING OUT A CRASHMEGAN MCCLUSKEYMAY 19, 2022TIMEWe meet Jo Wright, a successful children’s author, who is immediately annoyed that her arch nemesis, pretentious adult novelist Will Price, is at the festival where she’s speaking.
73 GREAT THINGS WE READ, LISTENED TO OR WATCHED THIS YEARTIME STAFFDECEMBER 27, 2021TIMEThe power of art to heal, and the possibly pretentious, but also possibly heartwarming, thing where we may actually crave that art once it’s taken away.
THE DAILY BEAST’S 21 BEST TV SHOWS OF 2021: FROM ‘SQUID GAME’ AND ‘SUCCESSION’ TO ‘SEX EDUCATION’KEVIN FALLONDECEMBER 20, 2021THE DAILY BEASTBros became briefly notorious earlier this month after travel blogger Geraldine DeRuiter made a post mocking the pretentious, overpriced, and frequently inedible 27-course meal she and her friends had there.
IS JEREMY STRONG THE BAD ART FRIEND?AJA ROMANODECEMBER 17, 2021VOXNo 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 RUNCIMANWORDS RELATED TO PRETENTIOUS
- Hollywood
- affected
- assumed
- bent
- bogus
- brummagem
- copied
- crock
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- ersatz
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fictitious
- fishy
- forged
- framed
- fraudulent
- imitation
- misleading
- mock
- not genuine
- not kosher
- phony
- pirate
- plant
- pretended
- pretentious
- pseudo
- put on
- queer
- sham
- snide
- soft-shell
- spurious
- suppositious
- two-faced
- won't fly
- wrong
- a bit thick
- abstract
- amplified
- artificial
- bouncing
- caricatural
- distorted
- embroidered
- exalted
- excessive
- extravagant
- fabricated
- fabulous
- false
- fantastic
- farfetched
- hammy
- highly colored
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hyperbolic
- impossible
- inflated
- magnified
- melodramatic
- out of proportion
- overblown
- overdone
- overestimated
- overkill
- overwrought
- preposterous
- pretentious
- schmaltzy
- sensational
- spectacular
- steep
- strained
- stylized
- tall
- too much
- too-too
- unrealistic
- astral
- august
- dignified
- elevated
- eminent
- exaggerated
- excessive
- first
- grand
- high
- high-minded
- high-ranking
- highest
- highest-ranking
- honorable
- honored
- ideal
- illustrious
- immodest
- imposing
- inflated
- intellectual
- leading
- lofty
- magnificent
- noble
- number one
- outstanding
- overblown
- pompous
- prestigious
- pretentious
- proud
- self-important
- sublime
- superb
- superior
- top-drawer
- top-ranking
- uplifting
- absurd
- bizarre
- costly
- crazy
- exaggerated
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expensive
- extortionate
- extreme
- fanciful
- fancy
- fantastic
- flamboyant
- flashy
- foolish
- garish
- gaudy
- grandiose
- immoderate
- implausible
- improvident
- imprudent
- inordinate
- lavish
- ludicrous
- nonsensical
- ornate
- ostentatious
- outrageous
- overpriced
- preposterous
- pretentious
- prodigal
- profligate
- reckless
- ridiculous
- showy
- silly
- spendthrift
- steep
- unbalanced
- unconscionable
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
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