Definition of Pretentious
Pretentious
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
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Pretentious Quotations
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
Justin Timberlake
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Laurie Anderson
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
Irvine Welsh
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Lou Reed
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
Pete Townshend
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
Hjalmar Schacht
Wow. I am really pretentious.
Rob Corddry
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin Smith
Pretentious Translations
pretentious in Dutch is opzichtig, ostentatief
pretentious in French is imaginaire
pretentious in German is anspruchsvollen, anspruchsvoll
pretentious in Italian is immaginario
pretentious in Spanish is engreido
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