Synonym: affected, fancy, flashy, ostentatious, showy. Similar words: pretentiousness, contentious, licentious, ostentatious, conscientious, attention, intention, prevention. Meaning: [prɪ'tenʃəs] 
adj. 1. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction 2. intended to attract notice and impress others 3. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar.
adj. 1. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction 2. intended to attract notice and impress others 3. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar. 
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31. He was restless with pretentious rhetoric.
32. What's the standard time of staring without looking pretentious?
33. Pretentious literary style does not prevail now.
34. Let other people use the more pretentious words.
35. Pompously dogmatic or self-important; pretentious.
36. The girl was either affected or pretentious.
37. She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.
38. He is a talented but pretentious writer.
39. I will apologize for my pretentious and condescending behavior.
40. This pub was of a very different type, smaller[http://Sentencedict.com], less pretentious.
41. I like to satirise the people who are pretentious and self-important, who think they're on a higher level than everyone else.
42. The sinister purpose of the reactionary ruling class was covered over with pretentious rhetoric.
43. Speaking well of yourself would only make you appear conceited and pretentious.
44. At this point of the story, some people may say that Confucius was pretentious and ill-mannered , or consider Confucius to lack compassion.
45. And I'm learning more now than i ever did in that pretentious art barn!
46. Dinner of fresh asparagus, cream of onion soup, warm bread and rare, hand-reared beef was sophisticated but not pretentious and utterly delicious.
47. What he was saying must sound both feeble and pretentious.
48. One who speaks his mind and doesn't act all pretentious.
49. Shadow : You just stole my words. Those people are so pretentious.
50. No one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.
51. The whole tone and the way that it was written is a model for us because it is not pretentious, not abstract and yet it is philosophically deep.
52. Although specialized terms can be used, pretentious jargon should be avoided.
53. This quotation illustrated what the British sometimes refers to as " the pretentious illiteracy of the Americans ".
More similar words: pretentiousness, contentious, licentious, ostentatious, conscientious, attention, intention, prevention, pay attention to, a bone of contention, detente, precious, previous, precarious, previously, potential, bumptious, ambitious, potentially, preventive, interpretation, mention, presidential, preferential, surreptitious, apprenticeship, invention, convention, not to mention, constitutional convention.