pretentious

adjective

pre·ten·tious pri-ˈten(t)-shəs How to pronounce pretentious (audio)

: characterized by pretension: such as

: making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing)

the pretentious fraud who assumes a love of culture that is alien to him

Richard Watts

: expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature

pretentious language

pretentious houses

: making demands on one's skill, ability, or means : ambitious

the pretentious daring of the Green Mountain Boys in crossing the lake

Amer. Guide Series: Vt.

pretentiously adverb

pretentiousness noun

Example Sentences

It is hard to be pretentious or elevated in Yiddish, and easy to poke fun.

Cynthia Ozick, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 1988 To anyone ignorant of the underlying physics, it might seem the most arrogant and pretentious necromancy.

Carl Sagan, Contact, 1985 She seemed at that first meeting a little pretentious and a would-be intellectual—she was studying sociology in the States, a subject which thrives on banalities and abstract jargon …

Graham Greene, Getting to Know the General, 1984 … and then a P.S. running into 20 pages both sides of the paper and coming back to the top of page one—Hegel, Nietzsche, Emerson, Gide, Beethoven, Suarez—all the boys trotted out in reams of pretentious blather.

Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), The Best of Myles, 1968 The houses in the neighborhood are large and pretentious. that pretentious couple always serves caviar at their parties, even though they themselves dislike it See More

Recent Examples on the Web If all of this sounds dreadfully pretentious to you, well, step off.

Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2022 This may sound pretentious, but my allegiance is really just to documenting the truth and history.

Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 June 2022 These wooly, small- to medium-sized pups aren't pretentious in the least.

Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022 Novak stars as Ben Manalowitz, a pretentious New York writer who travels to rural West Texas to make a true-crime podcast investigating the overdose death of a former romantic hookup.

Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022 Both films are surprisingly gentle, as is Flux Gourmet, a wry satire of pretentious artists.

David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 An eclectic group of pretentious rich and famous gather for the weekend at a hunting resort.

Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 2 Aug. 2022 Here was every pretentious avant-garde trick in the multicultural book for a staging of India’s great epic.

Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 Those words coming from most other people would sound pretentious and strange.

Terry Pluto, cleveland, 25 June 2022 See More

单词	pretentiously
释义	pretentious adjective pre·ten·tious pri-ˈten(t)-shəs 1 : characterized by pretension: such as a : making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing) the pretentious fraud who assumes a love of culture that is alien to him Richard Watts b : expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature pretentious language pretentious houses 2 : making demands on one's skill, ability, or means : ambitious the pretentious daring of the Green Mountain Boys in crossing the lake Amer. Guide Series: Vt. pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun Synonyms affected grandiose highfalutin hifalutin high-minded la-di-da la-de-da lah-de-dah lah-dee-dah lah-di-dah ostentatious pompous snippy See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences It is hard to be pretentious or elevated in Yiddish, and easy to poke fun. Cynthia Ozick, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 1988 To anyone ignorant of the underlying physics, it might seem the most arrogant and pretentious necromancy. Carl Sagan, Contact, 1985 She seemed at that first meeting a little pretentious and a would-be intellectual—she was studying sociology in the States, a subject which thrives on banalities and abstract jargon … Graham Greene, Getting to Know the General, 1984 … and then a P.S. running into 20 pages both sides of the paper and coming back to the top of page one—Hegel, Nietzsche, Emerson, Gide, Beethoven, Suarez—all the boys trotted out in reams of pretentious blather. Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), The Best of Myles, 1968 The houses in the neighborhood are large and pretentious. that pretentious couple always serves caviar at their parties, even though they themselves dislike it See More Recent Examples on the Web If all of this sounds dreadfully pretentious to you, well, step off. Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2022 This may sound pretentious, but my allegiance is really just to documenting the truth and history. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 June 2022 These wooly, small- to medium-sized pups aren't pretentious in the least. Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022 Novak stars as Ben Manalowitz, a pretentious New York writer who travels to rural West Texas to make a true-crime podcast investigating the overdose death of a former romantic hookup. Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022 Both films are surprisingly gentle, as is Flux Gourmet, a wry satire of pretentious artists. David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 An eclectic group of pretentious rich and famous gather for the weekend at a hunting resort. Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 2 Aug. 2022 Here was every pretentious avant-garde trick in the multicultural book for a staging of India’s great epic. Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 Those words coming from most other people would sound pretentious and strange. Terry Pluto, cleveland, 25 June 2022 See More Word History Etymology French prétentieux, from prétention pretension, from Medieval Latin pretention-, pretentio, from Latin praetendere First Known Use 1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Kids Definition pretentious adjective pre·ten·tious pri-ˈten-shəs : trying to appear better or more important than is really the case a pretentious snob pretentiously adverb as in pompously Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance pompously ostentatiously grandiosely impressively magnificently imposingly extravagantly expensively comfortably luxuriously richly fine opulently sumptuously indulgently affluently high splendidly fatly large wealthily immoderately prodigally wastefully intemperately grandly plushly lavishly wantonly palatially Antonyms & Near Antonyms simply austerely plainly humbly modestly poorly unpretentiously economically reasonably moderately cheaply sparingly meagerly sensibly frugally inexpensively prudently conservatively sparely temperately skimpily thriftily restrainedly See More
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