pretentious

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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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showily imitative of art or artists

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pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

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puffed up with vanity

"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

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affectedly genteel

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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"

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(British informal) upstart

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characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

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abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing

"too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes

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given to the overuse of long words

"sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"