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has gloss	(adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" pretentious
lexicalization	eng: pretentious

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opposite	(adjective) lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor" unpretentious
similar	(adjective) showily imitative of art or artists arty
similar	(adjective) pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty
similar	(adjective) puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek pompous, grandiloquent, portentous, overblown, pontifical
similar	(adjective) affectedly genteel highfaluting, hoity-toity, hifalutin, grandiose, la-di-da, highfalutin
similar	(adjective) 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" high-sounding, high-flown, inflated
similar	(adjective) (British informal) upstart jumped-up
similar	(adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart
similar	(adjective) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes sententious
similar	(adjective) given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money" sesquipedalian