The old man was a very pretentious fellow.
She pretended she's someone else when she saw her ex.She was so pretentious during the party, everyone tried to avoid her.
I feel so pretentious wearing this $3,000 suit; I'm used to wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt all day.
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 new, upscale boutique in town seems to be a bit too pretentious for my liking.
"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."--"Quid pro quo, Mr. Colt.""What does that mean?""It means I'm pretentious." (National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, 1993)
The Yiddish word for pretentious is "feygelekh."
To get pretentious
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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