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pretentious(dictionary)

pretentious (iou)



pretentious adjective. M19.
[French pretentieux, from pretention, formed as PRETENSION: see -IOUS.]
Making excessive or unwarranted claim to merit or importance; making an exaggerated outward show, ostentatious.
Dylan Thomas The pretentious palming off of doggerel..as 'arty' poetry is too much. J. Steinbeck An immaculate..house, grand enough, but not pretentious.
pretentiously adverb M19.
pretentiousness noun M19.