mah­tai­le­va

1. noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others
2. marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
3. impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
4. presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet"; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times"
5. intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
6. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
7. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek"
8. affectedly genteel
9. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
10. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer"

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Käännökset

• engl.pretentious
• ruotsipretentiös
• saksaprätentiös
• ranskaprétentieux
• venäjäпретенцио́зный
• esp.pretencioso
• viropraaliv, pretensioonikas, suurustav, hooplev, kelkiv
• italiapretenzioso
• puolapretensjonalny
• norjapretensiøs

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