pretentious

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.
  2. Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

Pircarînî

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Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/pɹɪ.ˈ tɛn.t͡ʃəs/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

From French prétentieux, from prétention, from Latin praetēnsus (“false or hypocritical profession”), past participle of praetendō. Note that pretentious is spelled with a ‘t’, unlike related pretense, pretension. This is due to the French spelling: *-sious does not occur as an English suffix, though -sion and -tion both do.

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