pretentious

Infinitive complement

• say: Does it sound pretentious to say that her work appears to utilize intelligence as a sixth sense?

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Some armigers are reluctant to use their heraldry as they feel that to do so may seem somewhat pretentious.
• rather: Not much sense can be made from this rather pretentious offering.
• too: Paul tries not to sound too pretentious whilst writing about himself in the third person.
• slightly: Moda Virginia Street Esthetically pleasing if slightly pretentious bar.
• extremely: Ian Anderson's voice is so grating, growling his extremely pretentious lyrics.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• sound: I guess I was worried the truth might sound a bit pretentious, silly, or implausible.

Modifies a noun

• twaddle: At the end, the woman sitting next to me muttered: " Pretentious twaddle.
• bollock: What complete, and utter, pretentious bollocks, which doesn't say anything, let alone mean anything.
• nonsense: An analysis of war reporting -- or pretentious nonsense?
• jargon: He didn't adopt the Ashkenazi's pretentious jargon.
• title: And not just with the length or overtly pretentious title.
• piece: Wouldn't we all do it, money for a very pretentious, very pseudo piece of refined old rope.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: Paul tries not to sound too pretentious whilst writing about himself in the third person.
• seem: The dialog is poor, the whole movie just seems far too pretentious for me!
• get: But that's me getting pretentious ( or absurd?
• become: The religious undertones throughout the film can become quite pretentious.
• appear: Giving the film real depth rather than appearing pretentious.
• look: For a smaller group, I think a conductor looks pretentious!