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pretentious
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Learner's definition of PRETENTIOUS
[more pretentious; most pretentious] disapproving
: having or showing the unpleasant quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are自我炫耀的；自命不凡的；自我标榜的
- He's a pretentious snob.他是个自命不凡的势利小人。
- a pretentious restaurant/movie自我炫耀的饭店/影片
- The houses in the neighborhood are large and pretentious.这片街区的房子大而炫目。
- He uses pretentious language.他用语狂妄。
— pretentiously
adverb- a pretentiously decorated hotel装潢炫目的酒店
— pretentiousness
noun [noncount]pretentious
adjective
pre·ten·tious pri-ˈten(t)-shəs 
1
: characterized by pretension: such as
b
: expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature
pretentiously adverb
pretentiousness noun
Synonyms
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
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
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
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