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Meanings of kitsch in English

Pretentious.

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Examples for "pretentious"
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Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious.
Reuters
2
The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.
Tarzan the Untamed
3
I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
The Wise Man’s Fear
4
There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
Sergeant York And His People
5
I find the architecture pretentious, even in its present somewhat de-Romanized version.
Julian
1
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
The new yorker
2
Will they criticise the security measures as overweening, ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
Independent.ie
3
Fthoom was still going on, sentence after ostentatious sentence, about the Alliance.
Pegasus
4
A not too ostentatious clatter of dishes came through the closed folding-doors.
The Sturdy Oak / A composite Novel of American Politics by fourt...
5
He dressed in plain, ordinary clothes rather than extravagant or ostentatious ones.
Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
Usage of kitsch in English
1
You really can't go wrong when it comes to geeky sci-fi kitsch.
Wired
2
This combination of highbrow and kitsch is not theirs alone, of course.
The Guardian
3
Beneath the kitsch bodywork, this is actually a BMW 2-Series Active Tourer.
BBC
4
The parade was a mix of old-fashioned communist-realist kitsch and newfangled weaponry.
The Guardian
5
The heterosexuals of showbusiness loved excess and kitsch and bad taste, too.
The Guardian
6
My work is treading this fine line between kitsch and something quite serious.
The Guardian
7
As the dynamic duo, they set a high water mark for 1960s kitsch.
The Irish Times
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Today the Wayback Machine looks weathered, dated, especially the Rocky and Bullwinkle kitsch.
Wired
9
Aside from the history and kitsch, some Italians still regard themselves as fascists.
Reuters
10
Still interested in the possibility of taking home some kitsch lighting?
The Irish Times
11
It's yet another addition to Russia's weird and wonderful collection of personality-cult kitsch.
Wired
12
Outside, hawkers try to sell everything from postcards to some wonderful Mao kitsch.
The Irish Times
13
Upper-crust Indians despise it in the way Western highbrows despise Las Vegas kitsch.
The new yorker
14
Such figurative interpretations of earth goddesses could be seen as kitsch.
The Guardian
15
They thought we were indulging a bit of kitsch, says Langford.
The Guardian
16
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pool-side style: Palm Springs goes kitsch during Coachella in 2016.
The Guardian
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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