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pretentiouspre‧ten‧tious /prɪˈtenʃəs/ ●○○ adjective   - a pretentious movie
- He has a pretentious style of writing, using four very difficult words where one simple one would do.
- I found Susie unbearably pretentious.
- The restaurant is stuffy, pretentious, and ridiculously expensive.
- Although the decor may be quite formal, there is nothing pretentious about the food, which is down-home wonderful.
- Bangers and mash is better than pretentious nouvellecuisine, though you can probably be a little more original!
- He complained that my titles were vague and pretentious, and smelt of the blue-stocking.
- He might be pretentious in other ways, but he was not posing at the keyboard.
- It may seem pretentious to say so but it is intended in Gramsci's terms as an organic intellectual work.
- So Princeton looked good for college until I met their pretentious admissions rep.
behaving in a way that makes people notice you► flamboyant someone who is flamboyant behaves, performs, or dresses in an extremely confident, and often unusual way that makes other people notice them: · He is one of football's most flamboyant characters.· a flamboyant French businessman· a young woman in flamboyant clothes ► dramatic if you do something in a dramatic way, you do it in a loud or noticeable way that is intended to get people's attention: · She raised her hands in a dramatic gesture of despair.· Rumpole produced the evidence with a dramatic flourish.· Rosa made a dramatic entrance into the room, wearing a tiny red dress. ► ostentatious doing things or buying things only in order to show people that you have a lot of money or because you want them to admire you or be jealous of you: · I thought of framing the letter, but that would be ostentatious.· They built themselves huge, ostentatious houses. ► flashy someone who is flashy likes to show off about how much money or how many expensive things they have - use this when you do not approve of someone who does this: · a flashy young businessman ► pretentious doing something in a way that is intended to show how artistic or well-educated you are, in order to make people admire you - used to show disapproval: · I found Susie unbearably pretentious.· He has a pretentious style of writing, using four very difficult words where one simple one would do. if someone or something is pretentious, they try to seem more important, intelligent, or high class than they really are in order to be impressive OPP unpretentious:  a pretentious film—pretentiously adverb—pretentiousness noun [uncountable] |