adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a pretentious movie
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He has a pretentious style of writing, using four very difficult words where one simple one would do.
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I found Susie unbearably pretentious .
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The restaurant is stuffy, pretentious , and ridiculously expensive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the decor may be quite formal, there is nothing pretentious about the food, which is down-home wonderful.
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Bangers and mash is better than pretentious nouvellecuisine, though you can probably be a little more original!
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He complained that my titles were vague and pretentious , and smelt of the blue-stocking.
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He might be pretentious in other ways, but he was not posing at the keyboard.
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It may seem pretentious to say so but it is intended in Gramsci's terms as an organic intellectual work.
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So Princeton looked good for college until I met their pretentious admissions rep.