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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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