pretentious /pri-tenˈshəs/

1. Pompous, self-important or foolishly grandiose
2. Phoney or affected
3. Showy, ostentatious
4. (of a claim) false (rare)

pretenˈtiously adverb

• technocratic
• technocrats
• technofear
• technofears
• technographies
• technography
• the bonk
• the bottom has fallen out of the market
• the Bowery
• the box
• the boy next door
• the boys in blue
• the brass
• the brief and the long
• the bright lights
• the briny
• the buck stops here
• the business
• theca
• thecae
• thecal
• the Cape
• the cap fits
• the cardinal virtues
• the case