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pretentious

English

  1. 🔊 making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
    “a pretentious country house”
  2. 🔊 intended to attract notice and impress others
    “an ostentatious sable coat”
  3. 🔊 (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

Spanish

  1. 🔊 presuntuoso pretentious
  2. 🔊 pretencioso pretentious
  3. 🔊 macanudo pretentious, ostentatious

Similar words

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