pretentious
adjectiveTrying to appear more important, cultured, or impressive than justified.
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adjectiveArtificial in manner or adopted to create a particular impression.
Artificial in manner
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artless
adjectiveNatural and without deliberate pretense or calculation.
bombastic
adjectiveUsing grand, inflated language that outweighs its substance.
Inflated in language
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grandiose
adjectiveImpressively large in appearance or excessively ambitious and pretentious.
lofty
adjectiveVery high or elevated; figuratively, ambitious, noble, or expressed with superiority.
Very high
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ostentatious
adjectiveDesigned to attract notice through a show of wealth or importance.
overblown
adjectiveExaggerated, inflated, or more grandiose than the subject warrants.
Excessively inflated
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pompous
adjectiveExaggeratedly self-important or ceremonious.
Inflated self-importance
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pretension
nounAn attempt or claim to seem more important, skilled, or impressive than warranted.
Unwarranted display of importance
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self-important
adjectiveHaving or displaying an exaggerated sense of one's own significance.
Inflated sense of importance
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unassuming
adjectiveModest and without a wish to attract attention.
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