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Meanings of pretentious in anglès
portuguès
presumido Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.
Related terms
Intended to attract notice and impress others.
Synonyms
Examples for "arrogant"
Examples for "arrogant"
1
President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
2
He was of a feeble character, arrogant in prosperity, faint-hearted in adversity.
3
As the Mormons increased in power, they became more self-sufficient and arrogant.
4
As time went on Germany and Austria became more and more arrogant.
5
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
1
I did not, so I ignored what I considered a presumptuous question.
2
Wearing the ring of one's better can be viewed as quite presumptuous.
3
In face of the terrible tidings, that would have been too presumptuous.
4
He persisted in regarding the missionary as a presumptuous and execrated enemy.
5
Painting and sculpture seem to me the most presumptuous of the arts.
1
The Senator was promptly and intensely interested in this cocksure declaration by
2
At that she laughed in a kind of a friendly, cocksure way.
3
He was a well-favored youth with an unlovely manner, haughty and cocksure.
4
Be cautious always; be especially cautious when you are cocksure you're right.
5
James DeGale is as cocksure as he is buttery-smooth inside the ropes.
1
He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
2
See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
3
I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
4
My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
5
They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
Usage of pretentious in anglès
1
Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious.
2
The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.
3
I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
4
There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
5
I find the architecture pretentious, even in its present somewhat de-Romanized version.
6
Perhaps the most pretentious is the French Hotel in Santo Domingo City.
7
It was pretentious and yet infectious, a delight for Harold to read.
8
More weighty than many of the more pretentious treatises on the subject.
9
That can look pretentious but I don't think it is at all.
10
See, I can do pretentious art referencing with the best of them.
11
Perhaps it's a fear of being judged as too earnest or pretentious.
12
There's no better time to be pretentious than when you're in college.
13
They saw the drawing of a pretentious structure with towers and porticoes.
14
They passed spacious buildings, and came to those less pretentious in style.
15
Without trying to be pretentious, they achieve an effect of simple beauty.
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A self-deceived little woman whispering in corners with a pretentious little man.
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Pretentious across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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