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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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tony collapse

peacocky collapse

boastful collapse: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

mincing collapse

overacted collapse

stagy collapse: having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; "stagy heroics"

supercilious collapse: expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

egotistic collapse: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

flossy collapse

histrionic collapse: characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose"

mannered collapse: having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

orotund collapse: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"

Johnsonian collapse

overnice collapse

bombastic collapse: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

splashy collapse: covered with patches of bright color; characterized by water flying about haphazardly

declamatory collapse

studied collapse: produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington

classy collapse: elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child

high sounding collapse

chichi collapse: someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way; affectedly trendy and fashionable

ambitious collapse: having a strong desire for success or achievement; requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

high flying collapse

chimerical collapse: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

glorified collapse

snobbish collapse

bedizened collapse

presumptuous collapse

overbearing collapse

overelaborate collapse

gorgeous collapse: dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

showy collapse: displaying brilliance and virtuosity; marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"

grandiloquent collapse: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek; lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

ostentatious collapse: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"; of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

rhetorical collapse: concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"; of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

garish collapse

overrefined collapse: excessively delicate or refined

overdone collapse: cooked too long but still edible

highfalutin collapse

haughty collapse

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