pretentiousness 的定义
- characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
- full of pretense or pretension; having no factual basis; false.
pretentiousness 近义词
self-importance
pretentiousness 的近义词 14 个
- arrogance
- cockiness
- egotism
- grandiosity
- immodesty
- ostentation
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pretension
- smugness
- vanity
- bigheadedness
- grandioseness
- vaingloriousness
pretentiousness 的反义词 2 个
更多pretentiousness例句
- Conquering 2021 may seem like an overly pretentious plan, especially for an immigrant who is just beginning to take his own steps in this great country.
- Moreover, Trebek’s performance didn’t just lack pretension, it was anti-pretentious.
- House, M.D., was a series from the get go, so no worries about pretentiousness.
- The infamous cable about the pretentiousness, quirks, and unpredictability of Muammar Gaddafi is but one example.
- The rooms were just ordinary hotel rooms, furnished with the dingy, wholesale pretentiousness of hotels of the second rate.
- It was a dwelling place of unusual pretentiousness for that land of "Do-without," where inexorable meagerness is the rule of life.
- Even leaving aside the discomforts which are always allied to pretentiousness, the poor rich woman has a hard time of it.
- Some human vanity the north tower of Chartres displays, but no arrogant pride, no Renaissance pretentiousness.
- Whether Meredith himself was more ashamed of their tailoring or their pretentiousness it is not easy to decide.