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pretentious

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

Synonyms

ostentatious

Antonyms

unpretentious unostentatious unpretending

See also

tasteless

Words of close approximity