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pretentious

making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction a pretentious country house a pretentious fraud a pretentious scholarly edition (= ostentatious) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar (= ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others an ostentatious sable coat

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Simple sentences

I found his pretentious demeanor quite disconcerting.
You are so pretentious!
Tom is fairly pretentious.
He's a pretentious boy who thinks he's better than everyone else.
He's just a pretentious douchebag.

Movie subtitles

Not even the most pretentious European court could match the Ming dynasty's authority.
You pretentious fool!
That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
Something more pretentious, befitting the occasion.
I sound pretentious?
Not pretentious.
Nothing pretentious.
I don't try to be pretentious, Harriet.
You're pretentious, Robert.
What? He may be pretentious.
I know it sounds silly and pretentious.
Mmm, yes, I'm afraid it will take some time, and I'm afraid I will have to leave it to you, because I am expected to eat a pretentious meal and exchange pleasantries with our distinguished guests.
It's a little bit pretentious perhaps, but rather than spot, or rover, actually, we call him Fa.
By one community upon another? Sorry, but my client has become pretentious.
He makes fun here of pretentious ladies.
Pitiful and pretentious delusions!
You were being pretentious, so we wrote the contract as a joke.
The sad and pretentious Sir Good-for-nothing!
Only I thought, as he's proud and pretentious, he'd only return as a last resort.
That's the most conventional, pretentious, pious speech I've ever heard.
The money has gone to your head. and you act so pretentious.
I find you vain and pretentious.
But you're so pretentious.
Pretentious.
I know it sounds silly, perhaps pretentious because the majority of the people are forced to live without any sense of dignity.
It's pretentious to bike, these days.
You pretentious girl.
Some stuck-up girl, a pretentious person who says she wanted to kill herself.
What could you possibly know? You pretentious little.
She's such a pretentious girl. Such tedious women!
He may be pretentious.
Pretentious women irritate me.
You want change social classification?. No more female feminist but. no more funny, but pretentious,. no more honeyed, but cloying.
But. without being pretentious.
And me, do I have a mother? You're a pretentious one. justi like the other Arabs.

News and current affairs

Examining the pretentious homes so tastelessly decorated, I asked who owned them and was told that one house was that of a deputy mayor of Moscow, another housed a famous singer, another the son of the Moscow prosecutor.
Despite his acumen, Prokhorov surrounded himself with such people, pretentious wizards who have turned Russian politics into the revolting spectacle that it is.

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