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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretentious:   (69 results)

Appears in the definition of:
arrogator, baloney, bilgewater, blah, boloney, bombast, bosh, claptrap, debunk, drool, expose, fustian, gaudery, high-flown, high-sounding, humbug, inflated, kitsch, ostentation, oxford english, pretension, pretentiously, pretentiousness, rant, sciolism, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, villa

Synonyms:
artsy-craftsy, arty, arty-crafty, conspicuous, flaunty, grandiloquent, grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, hoity-toity, inflated, in poor taste(p), jumped-up, kitsch, la-di-da, nouveau-riche, ostentatious, overblown, parvenu, parvenue, pompous, pontifical, portentous, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, splashy, tasteless, upstart(a)

Often used in the same context:
nuisance, pompous, pretencious

Antonyms:
unostentatious, unpretentious



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