pretentious / prɪˈtɛn ʃəs /

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pretentious 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  2. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
  3. full of pretense or pretension; having no factual basis; false.

pretentious 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

snobbish, conceited

更多pretentious例句

  1. Despite his pretentious cynicism and disdain for his superficial classmates, Cameron is immediately dazzled on day two of the bet by Padgett’s karaoke performance of “Teenage Dream.”
  2. A 25-minute-long video from August last year promised the “Lifepaths” feature, a pretentious name for what ended up becoming 15-minute introductions that barely changed the game’s story in any meaningful way.
  3. Svein: To be very big on things, bordering on the pretentious, I see it as all of those things.
  4. I have never felt that displaying these things was right, as her grandson it felt a little - if not a lot - pretentious.
  5. Actually, my standard was less pretentious: Is it good for the Jews?
  6. The comingling of the art and pop music worlds is pointless and pretentious.
  7. It was becoming increasingly elitist, pretentious, and exclusive.
  8. In the centre was a log-house, larger and more pretentious than many log-houses which he had seen in the South.
  9. The little inn was cleanlier and better kept than many of the more pretentious ones.
  10. With costers and bargemen one can always get on familiarly: it is the pretentious, vulgar men and females who are horrible.
  11. An affected and pretentious woman is all deportment and words; a sensible woman shows her sense by her behaviour.
  12. Thus an imitation of sagacity becomes pretentious affectation.