pretentious
/prɪˈtɛnʃəs/
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American sound/prɪˈtɛnʃəs/
prɪˈtɛnʃəs
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prɪ - ˈtɛnʃəs -> pretentious
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pretentious /prÇ'tenʃǝs/ adj (derog )
လေလုံးထွားသော။ ဟန်များသော။ expressed in pretentious language ❍ a pretentious person/film/ name. pretentiousness n [U]
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affected, ostentatious, showy, exaggerated, pompous, conceited, hollow, arty, assuming, aureate, big, bombastic, chichi, conspicuous, double dealing, euphuistic, extravagant, fake, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, overambitious, overblown, phoniness, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, snobbish, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious
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