Pretentious
[prɪ'tenʃəs] or [prɪ'tɛnʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; 'a pretentious country house'; 'a pretentious fraud'; 'a pretentious scholarly edition' .
Editor: Tod--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Recent.] Assuming, conceited, vain, pert, flippant, priggish, coxcomical, dashing.
Checker: Roland
Examples
- The intricate and pretentious art of diplomacy developed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison's second electric railroad of 1882 was more pretentious as regards length, construction, and equipment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the present time the studios in which motion pictures are taken are expensive and pretentious affairs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Roland