"She was only being pretentious, claiming she'd visited all these great places."
"She dominated the conversation with her pretentious theories about Rock Music, but it was obvious to everyone that she had no idea what she was talking about."
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"Quid pro quo, Mr. Colt."
"What does that mean?"
"It means I'm pretentious." (National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, 1993)
Although he was reluctant to be in the school play, his pretentiously redundant attitude says otherwise.
he is a world-class pretentious curmudgeon who deconstructs the world around him.
I know more about Einstein's theories than my science teacher does.
The colloquial or informal term highfalutin (from high fluting) means pretentious, as with wealth."My aunt has this highfalutin attitude now because she married a wealthy man and has a house in the Hamptons."
The word pretentious means, according to Merriam-Webster, "expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature."In everyday terms, it can mean pompous, snobby, showy and ostentatious.In a sentence:Her disdain towards the lives of the "common folk" seemed to me to extremely pretentious.
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The old man was a very pretentious fellow.
I feel so pretentious wearing this $3,000 suit; I'm used to wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt all day.
She liked to pretend that she was a famous actress, but everyone knew she was just being pretentious.
The new, upscale boutique in town seems to be a bit too pretentious for my liking.
he is a world-class pretentious curmudgeon who deconstructs the world around him.
I know more about Einstein's theories than my science teacher does.
The colloquial or informal term highfalutin (from high fluting) means pretentious, as with wealth."My aunt has this highfalutin attitude now because she married a wealthy man and has a house in the Hamptons."
The word pretentious means, according to Merriam-Webster, "expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature."In everyday terms, it can mean pompous, snobby, showy and ostentatious.In a sentence:Her disdain towards the lives of the "common folk" seemed to me to extremely pretentious.
The Yiddish word for pretentious is "feygelekh."
To get pretentious
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