01849288-a 'making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction';
 
Chinese (simplified) 夸耀+的 , 矫饰+的 , 矫饰 , 夸耀 , 做作
English pretentious ( ⊳ ⊳ ⇔ )
Definitions
English
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
― a pretentious country house; a pretentious fraud; a pretentious scholarly edition
Japanese
あたかも重要であるかまたは傑出しているか（しばしば値しない）のように装うまたは主張する
― 尊大な別荘; こけおどしの詐欺行為; 尊大な学術版
Relations
See also: tasteless
Similar to: jumped-up sententious artsy-craftsy high-flown arty grandiose nouveau-riche grandiloquent sesquipedalian
Antonym: unpretentious
Semantic Field: alla
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