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Synset

making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
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pretentious more info

sample sentences

"a pretentious country house"
"a pretentious fraud"
"a pretentious scholarly edition"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
pretense pretentiousness
antonym
unpretentious
semantic pointers
also see
tasteless
similar to
arty artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty pompous, grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da high-flown, high-sounding, inflated jumped-up nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart sententious sesquipedalian