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pretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" |
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unpretentious lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor"
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tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste
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arty showily imitative of art or artists
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artsy-craftsy,
arty-crafty pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
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grandiloquent,
overblown,
pompous,
pontifical,
portentous puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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hifalutin,
highfalutin,
highfaluting,
hoity-toity,
la-di-da,
grandiose impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
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high-sounding,
high-flown,
inflated pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
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jumped-up (British informal) upstart
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nouveau-riche,
upstart,
parvenu,
parvenue characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
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sententious abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
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sesquipedalian given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"
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