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pretentious

Definition

  • adjective: having or showing the unpleasant quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are
  • adjective: characterized by pretension
  • synonyms: presuming, assuming, poseur

Examples

  • The houses in the neighborhood are large and 'pretentious'.

  • a 'pretentiously' decorated hotel

  • a 'pretentious' restaurant/movie

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) your grocery lists. "Yours, with great admiration, Hazel Grace Lancaster." You think? Yeah, I mean, it's a bit pretentious... but then again, Van Houten uses words like "tendentious" and "Bacchanalia, so... (LAUGHS) I think he'll like it. (..)
    2014 The Fault in Our Stars