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Meanings of pretentious in inglés
portugués
presumido Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.
Related terms
Intended to attract notice and impress others.
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Examples for "ostentatious"
Examples for "ostentatious"
1
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
2
Will they criticise the security measures as overweening, ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
3
Fthoom was still going on, sentence after ostentatious sentence, about the Alliance.
4
A not too ostentatious clatter of dishes came through the closed folding-doors.
5
He dressed in plain, ordinary clothes rather than extravagant or ostentatious ones.
Usage of pretentious in inglés
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.
16
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
Common