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pretentious

 adjective
     
pre‧ten‧tious
if someone or something is pretentious, they try to seem more important, intelligent, or high class than they really are in order to be impressive [≠ unpretentious]:
a pretentious film
—pretentiously adverb
—pretentiousness noun [uncountable]
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