Crossword-Solution: PRETENTIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pretentious | a. | Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming. |
We have 71 clues for the answer “PRETENTIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing) | 1 answer |
| making claim to or creating an appearance of importance or distinction | 1 answer |
| Showy; pompous. | 1 answer |
| All fuss and feathers | 1 answer |
| Affectedly grand | 1 answer |
| La-di-da | 9 answers |
| Moneyed | 12 answers |
| puritanical | 13 answers |
| Patronising | 13 answers |
| magisterial | 17 answers |
| prideful | 17 answers |
| puffed up | 24 answers |
| overformal | 28 answers |
| turgid | 28 answers |
| Bloated | 29 answers |
| Immodest | 29 answers |
| stilted | 30 answers |
| Snobbish | 30 answers |
| hubristic | 35 answers |
| euphemistic | 35 answers |
| distended | 35 answers |
| mannered | 36 answers |
| Egotistical | 37 answers |
| vainglorious | 39 answers |
| imitated | 39 answers |
| fatheaded | 40 answers |
| Simulated | 40 answers |
| narcissistic | 41 answers |
| Genteel | 42 answers |
| Perky | 44 answers |
| Blatant | 44 answers |
| Egotistic | 44 answers |
| Puffed | 44 answers |
| stodgy | 46 answers |
| histrionic | 46 answers |
| Cocky? | 46 answers |
| falsified | 47 answers |
| Theatrical | 47 answers |
| wooden | 47 answers |
| Melodramatic | 48 answers |
| Pretended | 49 answers |
| Posh | 50 answers |
| Stuffy | 50 answers |
| disingenuous | 50 answers |
| Feigned | 52 answers |
| hypocritical | 53 answers |
| Domineering | 53 answers |
| overbearing | 54 answers |
| Solemn | 55 answers |
| Polite | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRETENTIOUS (5)
Altogether there was a pretentious and important air about him, as he lifted the skirts of his coat and sat down.
Here he sought a pretentious building that rose spire-like toward the heavens, its outer walls elaborately wrought with delicate carvings and intricate mosaics.
The name given me by my dear mother was no less pretentious and long than Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.
And to lose her by the interference and the dictation of others, by an impudent old woman and a pretentious fop stepping in with their “authority”! It was too preposterous, it was too pitiful.
Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
Quotes with PRETENTIOUS (3)
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen powe…
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–2017).