Many lowlier mortals regard it as pretentious.
That young man is extremely pretentious.
The goal in verbosity is to appear intelligent,not pretentious.
She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.
In New Testament times, the Pharisees were pros at pretentious prayers.
Did you just see a blond guy with a pretentious accent?
Look, I didn’t say I wasn’t pretentious; I said I wasn’t well read.
"It's a race, and I'm gonna win," he sings-overblown and pretentious.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
The way to make it enjoyable is to sound like who you are, not to be pretentious.
I know almost everyone in this world is pretentious, but you don't have to be one of them.
There is a very small market for this kind of business and, though it might sound pretentious, I am the most experienced in this field.
Unfortunately, all of your suggestions of what you write on it are bad. “In Transition” is too blatant (and too pretentious) a euphemism for unemployed.
We lived in a villa where the red bricks were made pretentious and vulgar with streaks of slate colour, and there seemed to be enemies everywhere.
I loved the sound of that unnecessarily pretentious, yet charming description and mused that I had became a connoisseur of something that's consumed daily by almost everyone.
In New Testament times, the Pharisees were pros at pretentious prayers. It became quite a source of pride. They were showing off, trying to impress people with their prayers.
By Day 4, she hated him. She deplored his hands; the fancy way he held his fingers struck her as pretentious. And just like that, her Vipassana Romance vanished.
As Roslin re-assumes the presidency and moves back into the offices vacated by President Gaius Baltar, what does she suggest should be done with a pretentious portrait of Baltar?
