pretentious in the PONS Dictionary

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We didn't want to make this big, pretentious portrait video.
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Nowadays the second given name is rarely used in everyday situations, the use of a middle name being considered pretentious.
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He was also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack-of-all-trades.
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The writers themselves are satirized in the episode, and are depicted as lazy and pretentious with few original ideas.
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Courtly would be pretentious in this upper bourgeois circle, yet the man's gesture is gallant.
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Though she can seem both flighty and pretentious, she has the best interests of her people at heart.
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He often satirises the verbal pomposities of academics, or the socially pretentious.
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I have no wish for a pretentious domain.
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The called the entry shallow and pretentious, and internally inconsistent and derided its plot.
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He was just another cowboy, a regular guy, very unassuming, not pretentious at all.
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