claiming (in an unpleasant way) to have importance,artistic value,or social rank that one does not really possess
"a pretentious country house"
"a pretentious fraud"
"a pretentious scholarly edition"
"an ostentatious sable coat"
The pretentious palming off of doggerel..as 'arty' poetry is too much.
出自: Dylan Thomas
An immaculate..house, grand enough, but not pretentious.
出自: J. Steinbeck