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pretentious (Ostentatious), adjective adorned, bespangled, brassy, conspicuous, decorated, embellished, flamboyant, flashy, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, iactans, meretricious, ornamented, ornate, ornatus, overly decorated, showy, superficial, tawdry

pretentious (Pompous), adjective affected, arrogant, boastful, boasting, bombastic, braggardly, braggart, conceited, extravagant, full of affectation, gloriosus, grandiloquent, grandiose, haughty, iactans, immodest, inflated, inflatus, opinionated, overdramatized, prideful, prim, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-esteeming, self-glorifying, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, snobbish, stilted, swollen, theatralis, tumid, tumidus, turgescent, turgid, vain, vainglorious

See also: flatulent, fustian, grandiose, histrionic, inflated, orotund, tawdry

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adorned
bespangled
braggardly
brassy
decorated

fulgent
fulgid
full of affectation
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inflatus
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overdramatized
overly decorated

prim
self-admiring
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smug

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