Pretentious
adjectivepri'tɛnʃəs
Adjective
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
“a pretentious country house”
“a pretentious fraud”
“a pretentious scholarly edition”
See also:Tastelessintended to attract notice and impress others
Similar:Ostentatious(of a display) tawdry or vulgar
Similar:Ostentatious
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Similar Words
- Ostentatious
- Flamboyant
- Flaunty
- Showy
- Splashy
- Tasteless
- Hifalutin
- High-flown
- High-sounding
- Highfalutin
- Highfaluting
- Hoity-toity
- Inflated
- Jumped-up
- La-di-da