Betekenis van:
pretentious
pretentious
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
"a pretentious country house"
"a pretentious fraud"
pretentious
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- intended to attract notice and impress others
Synoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- You are so pretentious!
- Tom is fairly pretentious.
- He's just a pretentious douchebag.
- Her nature is neither affected nor pretentious.
- He's a pretentious boy who thinks he's better than everyone else.
- The people who come on the Maury Povich show often make pretentious claims about their lovers cheating on them.
- The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.